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

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I agree.
Back on topic then.
Don't climb the rock - it's rude to the owners.

It's a shame you don't hold the same views about refugees trying to enter Australia against our wishes

Originally Posted by Pickles2

Mate, it appears that you always like to have the "last word", & say something that you've said, & words that we've all heard from you, MANY MANY times before, in fact,.....every time this issue is raised!!!
If I was able, & I was in the area, I would most definitely climb the rock again, ..with the appropriate respect...as I did before.
So, I'll just say again, I disagree with you, & judging by the poll, so do the large majority of this forum.
Pickles.

So, serious question. If the owners (traditional or otherwise) have said no, we don't want you to climb it, what would you consider to be appropriate respect?

I for one would like to be able to climb it, but not in a way that ****es off the traditional owners. (The fact that I'll never be able to now anyway is neither here nor there.)

I look at what happens at Lake Mungo and maybe something similar could be adopted at Uluru. You are not allowed to walk on the dunes unless you are on a tour. Sure, someone makes a buck out of it, but so what? There are a lot of people making money out of this country's natural resources. This system stops people wandering all over it and destroying it and hopefully teaches them a thing or two along the way.

Originally Posted by jon3950

So, serious question. If the owners (traditional or otherwise) have said no, we don't want you to climb it, what would you consider to be appropriate respect?

I for one would like to be able to climb it, but not in a way that ****es off the traditional owners. (The fact that I'll never be able to now anyway is neither here nor there.)

I look at what happens at Lake Mungo and maybe something similar could be adopted at Uluru. You are not allowed to walk on the dunes unless you are on a tour. Sure, someone makes a buck out of it, but so what? There are a lot of people making money out of this country's natural resources. This system stops people wandering all over it and destroying it and hopefully teaches them a thing or two along the way.

Not a problem at all. I've been to Mungo, did the tour with Aboriginal tour, "Harry Nanya",...would be happy to recommend, & do the same, at the rock.
Pickles.

busloads of Japs seem to have

Tut Tut, Japanese, if you don't mind, according to Arapiles


Cock!

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Good decision , no one climbs all over cathedrals or other sacred monuments.

Uluru has been sacred for longer than any recorded history , in fact there would be no older sacred site in the world.

or bikini clad women sun baking on top of tombstones. This happened near Lake Glenmaggie vic

Really?

The look on their faces would have been something to see as an olde bony hand came out of the soil & grabbed them by the thigh or whatever.

Maybe it is just me?

This had some potential for satisfying the questionable craving that some people appear to have to climb it, but it ended up a waste of rare, irreplaceable, helium


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