The Labor government is wasting taxpayer funds to keep its constituents from climbing rocks

Forget about policing gang violence, machete-wielding youths, and home invaders, this state government is spending your hard-earned to keep rock climbers off rocks.

Victorians voted “no” to racial division and privilege in the Voice referendum but that hasn’t stopped the Jacinta Allan government wasting your money pushing ahead with their race-based agenda.

Along with a treaty nobody asked for, the Labor government is wasting taxpayer funds to keep its constituents from climbing rocks including the world famous Mt Arapiles, in the state’s West, where half of the tracks will be closed.

Parks Victoria will patrol the mountain to enforce its rock climbing ban imposed over some mysterious, or should that be spurious, reasons under the Aboriginal Heritage Act.

The Jacinta Allan government is wasting your money pushing ahead with their race-based agenda. Picture: Nadir Kinani

Forget about policing gang violence, machete-wielding youths, and home invaders, this government is spending your hard-earned to keep rock climbers off rocks.

Parks Victoria’s Daniel McLaughlin defended the bans and the lack of transparency.

“We have an obligation to manage the tangible and intangible cultural values that are protected by legislation under the Aboriginal Heritage Act which makes it an offence to harm cultural heritage,” he said.

“Information on these values is sensitive and its protection from nondisclosure caveats and it is not accessible by the general public. This information is not always made available to the public.”

What a massive joke.

It was only three months ago when the Premier assured us that “as a proud country Victorian” she would not “put a padlock on our public forest”.

Another broken promise.