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Mount Warning: Aboriginal claims about summit climb are contested Part 3: White Beech

Germaine Greer's book White beech explores her purchase of a property in the rain forest in SE Queensland across the border from Mt Warning. The book raises many questions about Aboriginal Cultural knowledge about Mt Warning and further highlights misrepresentations and missing details by NSW NPWS in its official Park Literature. In a chapter in which she seeks to trace the Aboriginal name for her acreage she writes about the Ngarakwal/Githabul and Bundjalung claims about Mt Warning: On August 31 2009 Ngarakwal/Githabul activists made a submission to the Tweed Shire Council protesting against the perpetuation of the Bundjalung myth, the misuse of information from Indigenous elders and the lie of the dual identity of Mount Warning. According to Githabul elder Harry Boyd, Mount Warning is not Wollumbin the cloud-catcher and has nothing to do with any warrior king. The whole caldera is Wulambiny Momoli or 'scrub turkey nest', a `djurebil' or increase site where hunting is...