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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.
Protesters have climbed to the top of the 'stunningly beautiful' Mount Warning in northern New South Wales, defying a ban imposed out of respect to Aboriginal custodians.
A proposed new management plan for a national park in far northern NSW has sparked an outcry and divided the local Indigenous community.
The NSW government faces a delicate balancing act as it considers the future of a popular walking track, which has been shut for two years on cultural and safety grounds
Indigenous readers be advised that the following letter contains references to persons deceased. I read with some interest and also, I am sad to admit, disappointment, the article by Marc Hendrickx ( Echo, 17 February). As a climber I understand his concerns and can empathise with his sense of potential loss and need to protect what is important to him, but am not convinced by his arguments. I am particularly concerned with his criticism of NPWS for preferencing the views of the Bundjalung nation over those of the late Ngaraakwal Elder Marlene Boyd, who stated, ‘How can the public experienc...