Police say they’re investigating a suspected white supremacist rally held at Wollumbin (formerly known as Mount Warning) near Murwillumbah.
Photos were reportedly posted online to social media platform X last Thursday of a dozen people dressed head to toe in black, including balaclavas, and posed with banners associated with neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.
One banner says ‘Mount Warning for the white man’ and the group’s posts said members of the National Socialist Network in Queensland travelled to climb ‘Mount Warning’ over the last weekend in October.
Mount Warning is the mountain’s onetime colonial name. The mountain is now known as Wollumbin.
The post also goes on to refer to white Australians having built and maintained a mountain trail for nearly a century and how white Australians will decide who climbs it.
The mountain is closed to the general public out of respect for traditional land owners, for whom it is sacred.
Police say they haven”t receive any reports of people climbing the mountain in the past two weeks but are now investigating the alleged breach.
NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe has described the actions as ‘vile’ and ‘utterly disgusting’ and unwelcome in NSW.
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