Bureaucrats ‘closing the gates’ to national parks over concerns of Indigenous site damage

Sky News host Peta Credlin says “bureaucrats” are closing the gates to national parks over concerns of non-Indigenous access and damage to sacred sites.

“This significant High Court judgement, that has ruled Australia’s National Parks Authority can be criminally prosecuted for damaging sacred sites in the NT,” she said.

“What concerns me here is we have already got a whole lot of bureaucrats who run our national parks closing the gates now.

“Worried about … rock climbers and damage to sacred sites.

“Shutting down our access if we are not Indigenous Australians, won’t this make the national park bureaucrats even more reluctant to keep the parks open as they are now?”

Bureaucrats ‘closing the gates’ to national parks over concerns of Indigenous site damage