Actually it is the local indigenous community that has forced the restriction. Which I personally think is an insult to All Australians, and before someone calls me racist. My best mate as a kid was aboriginal, and my sister in law's Dad was full blood.
This is a pretty well established historic fact. They killed each other over land, women and resources.
And the exact reason I have always had a problem with so called native title. My thoughts on it are very politically incorrect here in Australia and libel to have me labeled many things I am not. But the simple truth is that any given patch of ground although claimed by certain tribes now, may not have been the historic owners throughout history, so to follow the theme of native title, do they have to then give it back to whomever they may have killed for it 1, 2, 3000 years ago? Where does it stop? We are a white tribe who took it off them, if we have to give it back, why shouldn't they? And in turn, the ones before that, and so on. ULURU has some pretty strong significance for me, my first visits were as a young man, when I ran to the top in a pretty good time on my own, if you like to push a point, first walkabout away from home on my own. My second visits have great memories of camping and traveling with a German tourist, A punk rocker who at the time had the same surname as me and we didn't know it, with amazing memories, we had a dingo all but walk through our tent, nearly froze over a few nights, 3rd visit with my (now ex) wife, then girlfriend hitchhiking across Australia together as a first date, we traveled for ages with a lovely old couple we met called Bert and Pat and their Rottweiler Mitchell. 4the visit with my kids on a holiday that took us 27000km over a year. All very very significant to me any my family history I was not part of the first fleet, I have never committed genocide, of killed or disrespected any aboriginal. Now however all my own cultural and family heritage with respect to ULURU is lost on the basis of native title that has only a verbal history and know proof of them being the owners for the last 10, 90 thousand years. Who knows how many tribal wars may have been faught over it in that time. I don't care if previous owners at some point were Female Amazonian warriors. It is not about race,or skin color. The simple truth is, we had a tribal war, we won, they lost. Its ours. If Japan had of won WW2 and succesfully made it to our shores, it would have been theirs.
Yes, it is a common misconception about the Australian Aboriginal that they were Nomadic, well they sort of were, but not really. What people fail to understand is the size of Australia's open areas. We used to have a single cattle station in Queensland that was bigger than the whole state of Texas. So an individual tribes land may take a hell of a long time to walk across, and the borders were often marked simply by an outcrop of rocks, or band of trees or water hole. So while Nomadic within their own tribal land I suppose could be argued, there wee all sorts of protocols and permissions and penalties and fights if you crossed into another tribes land. So while the illusion of being nomadic was there, they were not really, not in the classic sense at least where it was Ok to wander from the NT to Victoria stopping wherever the conditions were good..
Anna Creek Station has an area of roughly 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2; 9,400 sq mi) which is slightly larger than Israel. It is 1,977,000 acres (8,000 km2; 3,089 sq mi) larger than its nearest rival, Alexandria Station in the country's Northern Territory and over seven times the size of the United States' biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi).[3] As of 16 December 2016, the station is owned by the Williams Cattle Company, a family business that bought Anna Creek from S. Kidman & Co, doubling their total area held under pastoral leases. The nearest township is William Creek (which is surrounded by the Anna Creek station), but the nearest town for freight is Coober Pedy.[\quote]
Anna Creek Station - Wikipedia
So to go walkabout in Australia....requires a little tenacity
Yep, its bloody dangerous. I ran it in 28 mins plus some seconds when I was about 19. Would take me about 28 hours now.More than 40 people have died attempting to climb Uluru, its a dangerous climb and if you slip or fall there is absolutely nothing to stop you falling to your death.
Australia is a Continent .
A Jet pack would have done nicely there.
