#Wollumbin

[theforestlore]

Wollumbin Dreaming, this image was taken in Terragon, west of Uki in Northern New South Wales. Pictured is the mighty Wollumbin with its high ridges hidden by layers of condensing cloud and beautiful light rays. The mountain we see today is the remnant core of a shield volcano that was once active 23 million years ago and once covered an area of 100km x 80km. This mountain is a sacred place of deep spiritual significance to the indigenous culture of the Bundjalung nation.

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[bigvolcano]

#MountWarningMonday "Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain." Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3) #visitbigvolcano #limpinwood #chillingham #crystalcreek #tyalgum #tweedhinterland #mountwarning #WullumbiniMomoli #YoocumYoocum #NgarakbalGithabul #mtwarning #wollumbin #landscape #mountainscape #ruralscene #countryside #australia #downunder #newsouthwales #roadtrip #weekenddrive Reposted from @limpinwoodblondes The end of another day. 🙂 Reposted via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm548hhJUA8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[weeklyfrogpod]

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[coochiequeens]

Aboriginal men are trying to make sites important to Aboriginal women inaccessible to them.  

A plan to ban women from access to part of a New South Wales, Australia national park has caused uproar among local Indigenous women, who have branded the move “discriminatory.”

Wollumbin National Park, also known as Mount Warning, is located in the Tweed Shire in far north New South Wales, with the landmark attracting about 127,000 people annually.

Wollumbin Mountain was declared an Aboriginal Place above 2000 feet to the summit by the New South Wales government in 2014 to protect its cultural values and formally recognize it as a place of special significance to Aboriginal people.

The Wollumbin National Park summit trek has been closed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and will be shut off from the public permanently following an announcement from Minister for Environment James Griffin last month.

He said the future of the national park was being guided by the Wollumbin Consultative Group, which “represents a range of Aboriginal groups and families with a connection to the site”.

Under the new Wollumbin Aboriginal Place Management Plan, the whole of the mountain is considered a “men’s site”.

“Therefore gender restrictions apply to working on or visiting the Wollumbin Mountain,” the plan states.

However, the plan does note that there are “several women’s sites associated with Wollumbin Aboriginal Place that are integral to its cultural value.”

The plan also states that the “sanctity” of Wollumbin Aboriginal Place “may also manifest physically”, such as making people sick or putting women in “physical danger”.

“For example, if women access areas that are restricted to men, women are in physical danger and likewise for men,” the plan states.

The plan states that public access to the site has resulted in vandalism, the dumping of rubbish, increased erosion, and illegal installation of infrastructure.

The document says the key cultural and spiritual values of the place cannot be respected or protected if the general public continues to have access to the area, “particularly due to the restrictions of gender as this is a men’s place”.

The Wollumbin Consultative Group said the site was particularly sacred to the Bundjalung nation.

“Wollumbin is interconnected to a broader cultural and spiritual landscape that includes Creation, Dreaming stories and men’s initiation rites of deep antiquity,” the group said.

“Bundjalung beliefs illustrate the spiritual values embodied and evoked in Wollumbin and its connections to a broader cultural landscape.

“These connections are important to the spiritual identity of the Bundjalung nation, many other nations and families connected to Wollumbin, predominantly men and also women.”

However, local Ngarakbal Githabul women have said placing male-only gender restrictions on the site, as proposed in the plan, would “dispossess” Indigenous women with deep spiritual connections to the area.

Stella Wheildon, a north coast Indigenous woman, told The Daily Telegraph that the contested area also contained scared female sites.

She said she had conducted extensive research on the history of Indigenous Australians in the region and found that the Yoocum Yoocum ancestors, and the Ngarakbal Githabul people were originally from the area in question.

“The Wollumbin Consultative Group has discriminated against the women and our lores,” Ms. Wheildon said.

In a Facebook post, Ms. Wheildon said she had also been contacted by Ngarakbal Githabul women who feared the ban being proposed by the Wollumbin Consultative Group would impact on their access to “their most sacred Rainbow Serpent Seven Sisters sites”, which is the small ledge on the northern slope of the mountain.

Elder Elizabeth Davis Boyd, whose tribal name is Eelemarni, said under the new plans she would not be able to visit her mother Marlene Boyd’s memorial.

Her mother was recognized as the Keeper of the Seven Sisters Creation Sites, which includes Mt Warning, and has a dedicated memorial along the Lyrebird track.

Ms. Boyd told The Daily Telegraph that calling Mount Warning a “Bundjalung men’s site” was incorrect was “doing great damage to my ancestral culture, tradition and lores”.

“The State Government’s administrative decision to permanently close Mount Warning not only contravenes my customary law rights and women’s rights and human rights – but also my cultural responsibilities to the Gulgan (a Ngarakbal Githabul word for pathway keeper) memorial,” Ms. Boyd said.

A spokesperson for the National Parks and Wildlife Service told news.com.au the Wollumbin Consultative Group is “intended to include all Aboriginal people with cultural connections to Wollumbin”.

“It has broad representation, including from the Tweed Byron Local Aboriginal Land Council, adjacent native title claimants and representatives from family groups with knowledge and links to Wollumbin, and a representative from Tweed Shire Aboriginal Advisory Committee,” the spokesperson said.

However, Ms. Boyd claimed the Ngarakbal Githabul women have not been included in any part of the consultation process regarding access to Wollumbin National Park.

“Membership of the Wollumbin Consultative Group is determined by Aboriginal people,” the NPWS spokesperson said.

“Consultation has also occurred with Ngullinjah Jugun Aboriginal Corporation, Yaegl Traditional Owner Aboriginal Corporation, Bandjalang Aboriginal Corporation and 10 individual and organization Registered Aboriginal Parties for the Tweed and Murwillumbah localities.”

The NPWS said the NSW Government has not made a decision about the future of access to the summit, with consultations continuing, noting that and consultation is continuing, noting Aboriginal custodians will make decisions about the future of access to the summit.

[freddysaysthetablelands]

Wollumbin. Northern Rivers. Canon AE-1 35-70mm FD | Kodak Portra 800

[veritywarner90]

Self-determination is about undermining whitefella institutions, judiciaries, organisations and bureaucracies.

Self-determination is about enculturated white people who, on the strength of what may be a mere speck of indigenous DNA, now identify exclusively as Aboriginal, thereby giving themselves an economic and social leg-up.For the activist cadre it always was and always will be about money, power and control, all underlined by the notion that members of one race enjoy a preeminent ascendency over all other Australians.More examples of ‘self-determination’ can be found in the ban on climbing Ayers Rock (Uluru), Mt Warning (Wollumbin), Mt Gillen, and many Grampians climbs, all for ill-defined or unexplained ‘cultural’ reasons’.After much outcry, consideration is now being given to re-opening the Mt Warning climb, but only for those who pay a fee and are escorted by indigenous guides. More rent-seeking, what a surprise!Australian place names are also rapidly being overwritten with (most likely made-up) Aboriginal names (eg: K’gari, once known as Fraser Island).All of this is about claims to ownership, to ‘sovereignty’.These changes should not be mistaken for deference to Aboriginal culture; it’s no more nor less than an insidious takeover.What we are experiencing here is cultural guerrilla warfare, the picking off one target after the other.Don’t believe it? Look no further that what has happened in New Zealand.The Voice:Self-determination is not about ‘closing the gap’, nor Aborigines ‘having a voice’ – all of that can be achieved without a change to the Constitution. Indeed, the $35+ billion currently spent on Aboriginal affairs and the eleven plus current Aboriginal members of parliament are more than enough to fulfil both aims.The Voice referendum is purely and simply about the drive towards Aboriginal sovereignty, which can only be achieved by changing the nation’s foundational document and charter.Under the Albanese government, self-determination means the coming referendum, whose barely concealed intention is to divide Australia along lines of race. …What is hiding in plain sight is the Albanese government’s intention to de-facto fund and promote the ‘Yes’ campaign whilst hamstringing ‘No’ advocates. Anything the No campaign says can and will be construed as “misinformation”. We have seen this already with the appalling attacks by Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton’s on Jacinta Price.Brace for much more of that – and wonder, too, if the bile and attempts at character assassination are a foretaste of an empowered Voice? …Meanwhile, Australians are subjected to a daily and massive pro Yes propaganda barrage by the taxpayer-funded ABC and SBS.Remote Aboriginal Australians are unfortunate mascots in a power struggle among the white majority.The Voice is just the latest attempt by the left-bureaucratic class to get more control and further exploit the rest of us.Dr David Barton is a proud Celtic and Anglo-Saxon man with a long generational family history in Australia. He lives in Central Victoria.

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[childsphotos]

First flight in nearly 3 years! Nice to see the rain stop and blues winter skies take over! Time to travel again! Life in Northern NSW and the border of Queensland under the spiritual power of Wollumbin! Sacred country-Bundjalung Country! Lucky to call here home 📷@childsphotos •••••••••••• #Australia #childsphotos #home #bundjalungcountry #bundjalungpeople #sacredcountry #childsphotos #northernnsw #thedreamtime #dreamtime #tweedshire #visitnsw #wollumbin #tweedheads #coolangatta #snapper #blueskies #flyinghigh (at QLD-NSW State Border) https://www.instagram.com/p/CemkQfNPRjV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[byronwellbeing]

Digging in deep to haul myself to the summit of Mount Warning 💪🤘 #mountaingoat #wollumbin #hiking #hardyakka #nature #weekendsaway #fitness #healthylifestyle #feelingit! (at Wollumbin National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByxIgrGA0he/?igshid=1gqk91ex9s74u

[bou-vie]

View of Wollumbin

South Murwillumbah, New South Wales, April 2018

[aracaria]

'Wollumbin' I commissioned artist Jill Noble to create this stunning painting for my meditation pavilion. Wollumbin refers to the ancient volcano on whose outer caldera we live. Here is an abstraction of lava, beach and rainforest. #jillnobleartist #wollumbin #northernriversnsw (at Mullumbimby) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWAmbPfvmBk/?utm_medium=tumblr

[julzz99]

#visitnsw #visitnsw #wollumbin #byronbay #australia #nsw #beach #sea #sand (at The Wreck)

[mattbozinaart]

Great long weekend away with friends at Wollumbin (Mt Warning). The first part of Australia to see the sun each morning. Watercolour on Hot Press A3. . . . . #watercolour #mtwarning #mountains #mattbozina_art #goldcoastart #wollumbin #northernrivers #murwillumbah (at Mount Warning) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3UNhDogRHq/?igshid=asiyeyq1puv1

[mountwarningtours]

Wollumbin Mount Warning #wollumbin #mtwarning #mountwarning #mountwarning #mountwarningtours #tweedvalleycruises #tweedvalley #ilovensw #seeaustralia #discovertweed #discovernorthernnsw #greencauldron #murwillumbahsouth #tourismnsw #destinationtweed #visitnsw #discovertweed #onlyinthetweed #tweedregionalgallery

[oceaniatropics]

Wollumbin National Park, New South Wales, Australia, by Virtual 360

[thealioness]

This precious life 🌸

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