Mt Warning as seen from the Tweed River.

THE Right To Climb action group has reopened the iconic Mt Warning in Northern NSW to public access and will celebrate the reopening at the Mt Warning Hotel, Uki, this Sunday (January 25th).

Officially, the mountain won’t be reopened until July 2027, but local people who have for the past five years deeply resented the closure of the mountain to the public, are going up and down the mountain regardless of official opening dates.

The extremely popular climb was ‘temporarily’ closed during the Covid plandemic in 2020, but extended numerous times, for almost five years, allegedly to protect the site’s Indigenous heritage, which had never been an issue until then.

But the defeat of The Voice must have spoken to the local indigenous people who, despite raising “cultural objections” to public access, have not raised a stink over the determination of other local people to reclaim the mountain.

Local woman Lisha Gee began ignoring the climbing ban last year and even tipped off media who turned up in force to catch her coming back from a sunrise hike.

“I’ve walked the mountain four times last year and waved to the trail cams. My car is quite obviously there for about five to six hours doing the lyre bird trail. Just do it.” 

Right to Climb president Mark Hendrickx said a group recently went up with the intention of basking in the cool light of the first full moon of the year, but true to form, the ‘cloud catcher’ had other plans, and the group had a cold and wet time, waiting and hoping for the thick cloud to lift.

“And as the cloud finally started to clear, about an hour before sunrise, we were rewarded with some spectacular colours coming over the horizon.

“As always, it was good to meet other rebels who refuse to be locked out of nature by an illegitimate closure based on groundless claims of ‘ownership’, and/or baseless ‘safety’ concerns (the track is in exceptional condition).”

Rachel Merton, a member of the current NSW Legislative Council Select Inquiry on Access Restrictions to Public Land and Waterways says she is very pleased to see the long overdue announcement by the Minns government that Mt Warning will finally reopen to the public.

“The closure of the track over five years ago by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service on shonky safety claims – followed by contested cultural claims – remains a disingenuous decision where the interests of the NSW public were quite frankly put last.

“So while the Government’s announcement is welcome news more can be done now. Why wait for a further 18 months before the reopening?

“Let’s get the Mt Warning track opened in 2026 as a priority, and let’s guarantee ongoing access to all the public. I will be raising these recommendations when our committee resumes its hearings in the new year.”

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9 thought on “Mt Warning open again as locals ignore official opening date”
  1. You’re a real big deal, Sir Rope, and likely one of those who have done nothing at all to make a difference, politically, in this country.
    So don’t disparage innocent Australians who never knew that their governments sold them down the river via agreements like Lima, the offshoring of our industry, the placing of our country on UNIDROIT, and other treasonous dirty doings THEY have perpetrated.
    If you had any cojones you would have got stuck into them but likely you just wallow in your own self-righteousness.
    If you have nothing good to say then don’t say anything, Dangles.
    One thing I have done this week that rocked the Parliamentary Casbah in Victoria this week:
    The local Member, and their public housing outfit were accused, by me, of Dereliction of Duty because THEY did nothing, for years, about the extremely shocking things going on here-drug dealing, theft, and having turned these units into a processing operation for the latter.
    Once I Noticed Housing of their dereliction, I sent the thing to the local Member, who had it sent to the Minister of Housing, and the alarm bells rang, as this long-held Labor seat could well be in jeopardy come the elections later this year.
    And it would be “bad optics” for a number of us tenants to take a complaint to VCAT and have the matter adjudicated.
    And with tens of thousands of public housing tenants in the state, the optics would be even worse should the news get out.
    So THEY have conducted a clean-up of the place, and we now have 24/7 security guards here who started last Friday at 6pm.
    No grizzling no groaning, Sir Dangles, just concerted action, because the man knows what to do.
    Got it.
    If you love your country, do something positive for it, because I do, and will continue to do so.

  2. Aussies are bovine – they have a history of electing politicians that want to disarm them, forcibly vaccinate them, destroy their jobs, replace them via immigration, and make the goal of home ownership unachievable.
    Personally, I love it when indigenous groups launch legal action to take control of national parks, so they can lock out visitors or commercialise it. White Aussies elected the gov that enabled Mabo! White Aussies elected a gov that apologised for the stolen generators and laid the path to mass compensation schemes. White Aussies elected a gov that attempted to establish a voice to parliament with “unspecified decision making powers.” White Aussies continue to pay income tax to a gov that is their enemy, taxes which are used to fund Indigenous legal claims via legal aid and community legal centres.
    The Jewish lobby, led by Liebler, love to use Indigenous rights as a sledgehammer against the goyim, who stand by and tolerate it.
    Aussie cattle voted for it, so they deserve to be locked out of national parks.
    Aussies = bovine.

  3. Neville T: I had a bit to do with the Arapiles being opened up again, as I Lawfully Noticed both the local AbCorp and Parks Victoria as to their commercial liability, as they are both corporate and thus are subject, as corporate trading entities, to full commercial liability for all harm, loss and injury incurred.
    They both must also have indemnity insurance in place lest they cannot legally trade.
    Check ABN Lookup for their corporate registration, and that of your local Mt Warning area AbCorp.
    My video on the subject:
    https://rumble.com/v49aif3-australian-aboriginal-corporations-exposed.html
    Hold them to that liability-and your local Members too-and you should see a change.
    The liability factor is the vulnerability with incorporation.

  4. The local darkies say they were not consulted about the closure and were upset about that.
    The local businesses consisting of caravan park , cafe and others have been suffering financially since the closure that could have been averted if someone in our Shire Council had any sense .

  5. From my understanding, many local Aboriginal people living close to Ayers Rock were upset at the forced closure seeing it as purely political.
    Since then the various Gov’s in power have done their level best to close as many areas, various parks & heaps of 4WD tracks for absolutely baseless reasons. It seems to be a part of the plan to herd everyone into a digital gulag devoid of any any choice at all. Yes they are treating us as cattle. And despite what many people say the voting systen is heavily rigged in so many ways & the Aussie population are not responsible for voting in so many clowns = the rigges systen allows this to happen. In essence yes their are some non thinking people who still vote for li/Labour/greens but def not enough to put these clowns in power = the rigging of the system in so many ways allows for this to occur.

  6. Good on them, this sort of action needs to be all over this country, closure due to cultural reasons is a load of BS just because they have dark skin and a flat nose does not make them any different to me being white, im an Aussie, born here and raised here from part Jewish and Italian stock, I have just as much right as we all have to enjoy these closed off areas what are these parasitic bureaucrats going to do? jail us all ? I doubt it, its just a big bluff game. dont roll over sports fans get out of your comfort zone and exercise your rights, if enough of us do this these cowards will back down.

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