White Supremacist Protesters Climb Off-Limits Indigenous Site

Published on November 5, 2024

A group of Australian nationalists have defied a climbing ban at Wollumbin Mountain in New South Wales, unfurling a banner at the summit which said “Mt Warning for the White man” and posting the images on social media. Mt Warning is the former name of the peak. The site is sacred to Aboriginal people, and a ban on climbing above 600 metres is in place. However, the Queensland chapter of neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Network, shared photos from a weekend hike in late October, showing 13 black-clad members holding the banner at the peak, along with the Australian flag and their organisation’s flag....