A minor-party MP is seeking to overturn a ban on climbing a popular mountain saying that claims it is a sacred site are the hocus pocus inventions of left-wing extremists .
The trail up Mt Warning was closed in 2020 amid the Covid pandemic but has remained shut with the government giving various reasons including it s significance to local Indigenous people..
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Tourists are defying the ban on climbing sacred Mt Warning in northern NSW, forcing National Parks and Wildlife Service to shell out $7,000 a week on a private security firm.
Before the colonists came, we managed the land with careful use of cool burns. To stop giant bushfires, we have to learn again how to care for country.
For 60,000 years, many First Nations peoples managed the land that sustained us. Fire, for us, was not destructive. It created new life. We believe bringing back cultural burning is an important step towards creating a more just and sustainable future.
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Protesters have climbed to the top of the stunningly beautiful Mount Warning in northern New South Wales, defying a ban imposedĀ out of respect to Aboriginal custodians.