‘We get called extremists for supporting traditional owners’: Doctors between a rock and a hard place

There is opposition to a plan by Parks Victoria to restrict climbing access to protect Mount Arapiles' Indigenous heritage.
Dr Michael Connard (left) and Wendy Eden.

Mount Arapiles, a 140-metre rock formation, is dividing both doctors and their wider community.

It is famed within the rock climbing community worldwide, but its traditional name is Dyurrite and it is a place of deep cultural significance to the Wotjobaluk people, the traditional owners.