1. I actually sent back a couple of pieces of rock I took from Uluru many years ago - with photo so owners could replace from where I took the rusty red rocks,

2. No one has stripped on the Rock before? Find this hard to believe. I was there during July, a bit chilly even though it was very sunny, but feel like I missed an opportunity - it is an invigorating place. Did run down the side on my return - that was fantastic!

Ross, agree with you:

>> It is a great pity that Parks Australia could not avail themselves of a similar professional who could have done shadow diagrams for them before they committed $21 million of taxpayers' money on a viewing area that is fourth-rate at best to see the sunrise. <<

Now that's a disgrace.

Do you think that it would be a bit rude for a girl to strip & do a little dance at the altar of Westminster Abbey? How long would she survive at Mecca?

I was told by a ranger at Uluru years ago that the Aborigines do not have any problem with
people climbing at all, the problem is that because they believe in and are very scared of spirits or ghosts , when a tourist dies on the climb as many have it means their spirit may still be hanging around .
I personally object to people who defecate and pollute the place when they climb it as many do.
As for the French girl, sounds a little like with are transferring the anti sexual attitudes of conservative Muslims and Christians onto Aborigines. Are most Aborigines truly offended by what happened ? can I see a poll on that one, As for deporting her I thought thats what Totalitarian countries did.

Yawn! Next..........your human. lol. OH, how I love the minds of not the minds.

Again!...........Next. As human-beings...lol......and i will leave you with just a thought in-time......... David will love this........If you don't like it done to you, don't do it to others.

This post must be-long in the section of non humans.

Smile.

TT

So sad, just like other articles that involve Aborigines, the racists jump out quickly to take whichever side opposite for some reason on principal.

But first, a reply to Ross.

1- the misplacement of the platform is a disgrace as far as planning goes. Either they could have asked the hundreds of people who work around there where the shadows actually lie if they could have installed it, or they simply could have NOT spent the money at all.

2- Closing the climb? ABSOLUTELY. Only if it is clear that the landholders don't mind it being open and are under no outside pressure that it should remain open, entirely at their own discretion.

I'm also amazed at all the analogies people are making that are so bad they would be better placed in a comedy than a political discussion. The two that stick out are:
-Why respect Uluru when the Abos in the city are 'disrespectful'? (after all, they can't possibly be completely different people- you know, with over 300 different Aboriginal nationalities on this continent and such.
-But people got naked in front of *insert non-sacred commercial tourist landmark like Opera House* and nobody cared! A better example would be if there were a nun's convent built on the hill where Jesus was crucified with an in-built cemetery to fallen diggers, and I wanted to climb on top of the gravestones and dance naked on top- THAT would be a more sensible comparison because that's the precise nature of the rock to the landholders.

What's scary is that the people who are so angry about it would try very hard to sabotage even a simple proposal that doesn't bother any of us on a matter of respect, seemingly out of pure spite.
I seriously doubt Americans or Canadians start boiling with rage whenever any native lobbyists ask for anything like this.

I have personally spoken to a number of full blooded aboriginals who have climbed Ayers rock. They have no problem with it. It is more likely the earth worshiping whites and aboriginal industry who keeps coming out with this crap.