No White People Allowed
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/mt-warning-climbing-ban-security-on-sac...Mt Warning climbing ban: Security on sacred mountain costs taxpayers $7,000 a week
Story by Peter Vincent For Daily Mail Australia • Thursday
Taxpayers have paid over $100,000 to block hikers from climbing a iconic Australian mountain after it was declared 'sacred' for cultural reasons.
Private security guards were hired at a cost of $7,000 a week in April by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to prevent access to Mt Warning in the Wollumbin National Park in northern NSW.
The 1,157m mountain, famous for its craggy peak and the tough 4.4km track to reach it, has been off limits since March 2020, first due to the pandemic and then because of track repairs.
Then in October 2022 the Wollumbin Consultative Group, representing a range of Aboriginal groups and families, recommended it be closed permanently due to its sacred significance to local Indigenous people.