To David





 > One pays $10.00 (in 1992, could be more now) to the local indigenous 
 > persons  for the priviledge of clambouring on the 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.

how genorous i bet they are getting rich up there real quick but not as
quick as the white management of Uluru Pub ......if the aboriginals had not
gained there RIGHTS they would not have been able to revive their culture
and white people would not have had the boom they have had in the tourist
dollar and throw a few crumbs to the aboriginal.  Uluru is sacred to
aboriginals ...they may have given the bloody thing back to them but
because of the tourist dollar they could never stop people climbing all
over something sacred.



 > 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?

Uluru is sacred...redfern could be described as equivalent to hell... put a
plaque in Kings Cross as well if you want to make that comparison 


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