Thread: The Banning of Climbing Uluru (Ayers Rock) - thoughts on this article?

Well.... Who saw the A Current Affairs Story on climbing The Rock ???

Thoughts...

Didn't know a current affair (or FTA TV for that matter) was still a thing...

Originally Posted by Robmacca

Well.... Who saw the A Current Affairs Story on climbing The Rock ???

Thoughts...

My hand's up. Most were pretty disrespectful IMO.

I cannot remember the last time I watched ACA...downloaded the app and just watched it.

It wasn’t much of a story and poor journalism as I expected

Unless I watched the wrong story the owners agreed to meet Pauline and the two brothers (senior owners) gave Pauline their approval for her to climb, based on that no disrespect. Off course providing there was no creative journalism.

The interview of the four young girl was always going to make them look bad, not local, not enough life experience. Comments like home is England and they are working with the locals. They appeared to be wait staff, they may hang out with the local after work although the resort staff facilities is pretty inviting and I reckon that’s where they spend most of the time, be surprised if they actually spent a whole lot of quality time and or volunteer to help the ‘local’, too me me they were some young Aussies that had a job that happen to be in an area close to their heart.

The show didn’t interview anybody that choose not to climb. It’s easy pickings showing the people climbing, although the one side footage didn’t help with the poll.

Nearly all the screen time in general is given to either a couple of land owner spokesman and a lot of people that have opinion that are either not indigenous or not local indigenous.

Although Pauline doesn’t quite articulate her comments all that well she does have some good points...end of the day she got the approval from the ‘local’ owners climb, with there blessing I don’t see her as being disrespectful although I believe she would have attempted with or without.

Given it’s ACA, I’m not sure we got the full story

Either way I climbed the rock in late nineties, I’ll consider dropping in if I’m in the area when Im touring with my family, but with no opportunity to climb I reckon there are plenty of other places around Aus I can get my cultural experiences.

It’ll be interesting how the tourism of the rock goes after closing the climb, I suspect other area of significance close by will become more popular with more restriction to follow.

Indigenous tourism opportunities are growing, approaching the end of the climb.

The end of the climb

I see only 20% of visitors climb anyway.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I see only 20% of visitors climb anyway.

That is because it is closed 80% of the time.

Skydive Uluru - tandem skydiving operation that skydives right next to Uluru

technically its not climbing