Dianne, at 09:21 on Mar 14 1997, you wrote to David Drummond ...

DL> To David

>> rock.  Luckily the management at the Uluru Pub won't allow 
>> the LIPs to exchange it for grog (at the elders' request).  
>> Doesn't stop the LIPs pestering the tourists to buy it for 
>> them though.

DL> how genorous i bet they are getting rich up there real quick 
DL> but not as quick as the white management of Uluru Pub 

White people built that hotel, why shouldn't they reap the benefits. 
Should the pub be handed over too?

Are you suggesting that if the LIPs were to get rich from the
"clambour over the rock" fee, it would be OK?

DL> ......if the aboriginals had not gained there RIGHTS they 
DL> would not have been able to revive their culture and white 
DL> people would not have had the boom they have had in the 
DL> tourist dollar and throw a few crumbs to the aboriginal.  
DL> Uluru is sacred to aboriginals ...they may have given the 
DL> bloody thing back to them but because of the tourist dollar 
DL> they could never stop people climbing all over something 
DL> sacred.

Don't most Aborigines claim to be Christian?  What's this crap about sacred
sites then?  Christians don't mind visiters in their churches or
graveyards.

>> There is a plaque at the bottom listing the people who have 
>> died in the attempt.  It is a very small plaque compared with 
>> the number of people who have climbed the rock.  More people 
>> have been mugged in Redfern - should they put a plaque there 
>> too?

DL> Uluru is sacred...

Why?  What exactly is so significant about this hunk of rock?

DL> redfern could be described as equivalent to hell... 

As in "full of devils"?

DL> put a plaque in Kings Cross as well if you want to make 
DL> that comparison 

Oh?  What's so significant about Kings Cross?  Lots of heart attacks there?

David
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