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Website title: Mountain Journal – Environment, news, culture from the Australian Alps

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This website (and the magazine) focuses on ‘environment, news and culture’ from the higher mountains of the Great Dividing Range between Melbourne and Canberra and the mountainous island of lutruwita/ Tasmania.

From time to time we get people writing about mountains that have resonance to them which are well away from the core area of focus of MJ. For instance, recent ...


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In April 2026, many of us were shocked to find out that Parks Victoria intended to clear almost 1 hectare of rare snow gum dominated forest on Mt Macedon in order to restore a view from near the Memorial Cross towards Melbourne.

Locals and environmentalists


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The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) meets seven of the ten criteria for World Heritage listing, an achievement not surpassed by any other property. The TWWHA was first inscribed in 1982. Since then, the world has changed significantly, and this is demonstrated by the issues that are arising in places like the World Heritage Area. This in turn has influenced h...


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Are you feeling blue in the lead-up to winter (and let’s be honest, the budget)? Sad that Albo won’t tax gas properly? Or just need an excuse to go to visit the beautiful Vic Alps? Well we’ve got you sorted! Just sending you all a quick invite to Protect Our Winters’ (POW) flagship annual event in Bright in NE-Vic, POWFest.

POWFest is a free annual event to celebrate ...


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The theme for this year’s Mountain Journal magazine (which is available as a pdf here) was ‘the mountains are changing, are we ready?’

In delving into the changes being driven by global heating, destructive land use practises, and more pe...


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