Ayers Rock is not a church or someone’s backyard!

Ayers Rock did and still should belong to all Australians she is not a church or someone’s backyard she is a masterpiece of earth’s vibrant geological creation in an Australian National Park.

All Earth’s mountains command respect and none in the realm of nature are more sacrosanct or more revered than any other. None can be compared to a church, a temple, the Taj Mahal, or a pyramid which are man-made monuments. To make such a link is sacrilegious and blasphemy. A mountain is a place of being, pilgrimage, adventure, danger, joy, and spirituality. 

Man is not nature’s god and has no spiritual authority to make a place of nature a sacred site to stop others from experiencing, enjoying, or using that place. Such action is a bully tactic.

With a quiet majesty in the enormity of outback Australia’s seemingly empty desert an isolated red rock, a hypnotic centrepiece, rises brusquely in a surround of extensive flat erosion. Awaken in the early morning light to face emerging hues of milky grey, dark purple to red and ochre then a beautiful gold. Then in the evening as the sun dips beneath the horizon the isolated rock fades from bright red, glows golden orange then fades through a dusky pink, deep maroon and brown.

A national symbol that once held a special significance for most Australians.

One of the most recognisable landmarks in the world, fondly remembered as Ayers Rock, is an iconic natural beauty first seen, named, and recorded by European explorers in the 1870’s. Over the next 30 years it was observed and noted that only a handful of nomadic local natives trekked around the desolate area at any one time. Small family groups of various clans, continuously on the move, travelling naked across the terrains to hunt, gather food, visit kin, war, and participate in ceremonies.

Ayers Rock is not a church or someone’s backyard she is a national landmark. She is a masterpiece of earth’s vibrant geological creation in an Australian National Park.

Ayers Rock is located in the southern part of the Northern Territory, Central Australia. As the crow flies 335 km southwest of the nearest large town Alice Springs. By road the distance is 463 km.

Copying overseas fads Australia’s remote communities were created by the Homelands movement of the 1970’s with the romantic ambition of restoring Aboriginal culture and religion. This schema was cultivated by federal and state governments who erected clusters of houses in remote locations, like Wadeye, Tennant Creek, Yuendemu, Ramingining, Mutitjulu, and often on former missions. Welfare payments were given to those who chose to live there.

Given birth in 1976 about 14 km north of Ayers Rock is a tourist town called Yulara. Most of the town is made up of Ayers Rock Resort, a monopolised First Nations-owned enterprise that provides expensive accommodation, expensive restaurants, a range of 101 tours and activities, and other needed services to people visiting the Australian National Park.

Estimated to be around 550 million years old, Ayers Rock is one of the world’s largest sandstone boulders. A natural geological wonder created by our earth conceals a diverse ecosystem full of plant and animal life.

Animal species in the park include 21 different mammals, 73 reptiles, 178 birds and 4 desert-dwelling frogs and thousands of invertebrates such as ants, spiders, and bugs. After heavy rains, small, tadpole-like crustaceans known as shield shrimps hatch in transitory waterholes and rock pools on top of Ayers Rock and around the park. When the water dries up, the shield shrimp eggs also dry up and can remain dormant for numerous years while waiting for the next big rainfall.

In weather that fluctuates to the extreme, highs in summer of 47 degrees Celsius, plummeting to -7 degrees Celsius in winter, over 416 native plants species, trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses live in coherence in this Australian National Park.  

This island mountain rock is composed of arkose, which is a course-grained sandstone, and very hard making it a home to many springs, waterholes and rock caves. Like an iceberg most of the natural rock structure’s mass is below ground level.

For immeasurably more centuries than human beings have been on the earth, Ayers Rock has been changing in its natural environment. Continuous rainfall of 307 mm per year and erosion have shaped its form. Soaring 348 metres high over the flat surrounding sand plains and woodland landscape, the upsurge takes one to 843 meters above sea level. The base in perimeter is 9.4 km.  

There are two main viewpoints surrounding the island rock formation, the First Nations peoples stories that are secret and change depending on who the storyteller and listener is. Some creation stories can only be shared with men, ‘secret men’s business’. Some creation stories can only be shared with women, ‘secret women’s business’. Outsiders can only be told what creation stories a child would hear.   

Oral stories said to be handed down from generation to generation by First Nations peoples declare their ancestors alone created the materialised by nature landmark.

Then there is the geological explanation.  

Geologists estimate that Ayers Rock is around the same age as the Australian continent. Ayers Rock began underwater and had two fans, one made of sand, the other of conglomerate rock. The movement of tectonic plates and the pressure of the sea water surrounding it resulted in these two fans condensing into rock. As the continent dried up the sea floor became arid desert, as such Ayers Rock was revealed as it is today. The natural wonder obtains its bright red colour from iron minerals within the rock rusting as they are exposed to the outside air. Fresh rock, which hasn’t been exposed to the atmosphere is grey in colour.

Naming a land structure that has a 9.4 km circumference and is 348 metres high as a ‘rock’ is considered to be very Australian. ‘Uluru’, the iconic rock’s recently revamped name, sadly, is now compulsory usage in media and government circles.

‘Uluru’ is a word that no one can confirm it’s true meaning.

The word ‘Uluru’ is from the Pitjantjatjara language and is believed to have no English equivalent. The word ‘Uluru’ was cited in the 1930’s by local elders to mean a ‘Dreaming’ snake ancestor or was the name of a Rock hole on the top of the ‘rock’ that was a secret, sacred site of initiated male elders.

It is also believed that the word ‘Uluru’ itself is more directly associated with the water hole above Maggie Springs than with the ‘rock’ as a whole. With a reported high number of local native languages spoken one would think there was more than one local native language name for Ayers Rock so why ‘Uluru’? Personal possession?

One of many ‘non-secret’ Dreamtime stories about the rock is that during the time when the world was being formed, the climb over Ayers Rock was the traditional route taken by ancestral Mala men when they arrived at the place.

This is the irrational logic of the ‘why?’ behind the prohibition to ascend the nature formed rock today. The climb is a men’s secret sacred area and the men have closed it. Aboriginal women are well versed that they can be killed if they trespass on secret sacred men’s ground.

The taking of photos in the area is restrictive for so called ‘cultural and spiritual’ reasons. The northern face of ‘Uluru’ is completely off limits for any commercial purpose.

Ayers Rock continuum seizes the mystical heart of Australia’s red centre. People sense a powerful presence the moment they set eyes on the natural wonder. People breathe in the colour shifting rock, the burnished orange soil, the iridescent yellow spinifex grass, and pale green trees appearing with the bright electric blue sky background.

Not everyone who visits the World Heritage site wants to ascend the iconic ‘rock’. Down from 80 percent of visitors when the National Park was publicly owned. to seven years ago about 48,000 of the 300,000 visitors to Ayers Rock that year made the climb. Many tourists are not inclined to walk around the park or visit the cultural centre. Many visited Ayers Rock for the climb and if they could not they got back on the road.

In the land of wonder, the land down under. Ayers Rock rocks. Willem was there in 1973. He climbed the rock bare foot and remembers seeing a bunyip money box at the top. In 1980 a young man carrying his 3 year old daughter on his shoulders and his wife started to climb the rock at 4.45 am. Describing their adventure as one of the best experiences he noted it was 40 degrees when they got back down at 10.00 am. Also in 1980 another tourist reflected exuberantly that they climbed the rock ‘in bare feet, no water, no sunscreen, no hat, and no brains’.

Countess families have climbed the rock together. From the very young to the mature aged people from all over the world have shared a lifetime memory creation.

In 2021 people who climbed the rock said “It was bloody fantastic… I’ve always wanted to do it… I’m so excited, I’m Australian I think it is part of being Australian.” “I did it as a child and have brought my child to experience it.” another non related Australian said “My dad did it, so I had to do it to follow him.”

In the last couple of decades many tourists experienced waiting all morning for park officials to unlock the gate that opened intermittently to allow people to ascend up the steep ridge of the rock for the three-hour walk on. The climb was closed to tourists for 20 days in 2001 and eight days in 2017 due to the traditional owners mourning a death of a First Nations person. Camping in the Ayers Rock national park is a no go zone.

There is a dark side to why the number of climbers dropped before the climb was outlawed.

The co-management model has allowed the First Nation activists to close a number of self-declared ‘sacred’ sites and has given these few in number elite individuals a direct role in approving or denying various activities for all Australian citizens and the rest of the world in our Australian National Parks.

A once-unthinkable victory for the elite First Nation sacred men warriors. What comes next?

Documented history tells us:

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 established an Aboriginal Land Fund Commission to purchase land for Aboriginal communities with no individual ownership.

In 1975, The National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation was established. In 1977, The National Aboriginal Education Committee was established. In 1978, conflict surfaced between the Commonwealth and the Queensland Government over Aurukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal reserves when the Queensland Government opted to take control of both reserves. Both communities protested and asked for help from the Commonwealth Government.

In 1979, In Coe v Commonwealth (1979) 24 ALR 118 the High Court struck out a statement of claim brought by Paul Coe proclaiming Aboriginal sovereignty over Australia. The Court alluded that the existence of native title would be “arguable … if properly raised”. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.

In 1982, Eddie Mabo, Dave Passi and James Rice brought an action against the State of Queensland and the Commonwealth claiming ‘native title’ to Torres Strait Murray Islands 4.29 square kilometers of land in water off the northern Australian coastline.

The 1976 Land Act allowed Aboriginal people to reclaim crown-controlled lands. 104 traditional owners claimed ownership of Ayers Rock National Park. The rock and surrounding country were there millions of years before any yesteryear local native ancestors arrived to hunt and gather food in the area when passing through.

In 1985, the Deed of Grant to Ayers Rock National Park was delivered to Uluru Katatjuta Aboriginal Land Trust under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. The traditional owners next leased the 311,000 acre Australian national park back to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service for 99 years. The park’s board of management became First Nations majority.

This is yet another example of the Australian taxpayers being the ‘fruitful hunter’ and our collective land being taken away from the majority of Australian citizens by a government of the day and given to a select few cult activists with their loud microphone.

In recent years a traditional owner said “Some people come only to climb,”. “We want to teach them how we live, learn how our traditions work.” So the decision was made by the modern traditional owner elders to stop visitors from climbing the natural structure, so the visitor had to see what they, the traditional owners, wanted the visitors to see, hear, and experience.

While the guiding chain up Ayers Rock has been wiped-out, evidence of the mass of people who have climbed the rock will be there for countless years to come. Nicknamed the Ayers Rock scar, a white line where the rock’s red surface has had a path woven into it by countless humans who had free will to enjoy a natural gift given to us by our planet Earth. The surface scar is visible from the base of the old climb site to the top of Ayers Rock. Management have requested pictures of the “scar” not be published.

In the Northern Territory the government has purchased land from private owners, then those crown-owned lands are reclaimed by First Nations groups, so long as this small group of individuals could demonstrate some traditional ownership to land councils. Currently, about 50 per cent of the Northern Territory and 85 per cent of its coastline is recognised as being owned by First Nations groups. No individual ownership.

In 1983, in New South Wales the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) gave estate freehold title over existing reserves to local Aboriginal Land Councils and allowed for claims over some crown lands. The legislation gave elastic criteria for creating land claims and commanded that for 15 years 7.5 per cent of general land tax revenue passed into a fund for the purchase of land on the open market.

The widespread view that the Aboriginal land rights movement returned to Indigenous Australians control of their land is a fallacy. The inconsistency between those living on Indigenous land and those living in the real Australia is an open window whitewash. Politicians, elders, academics, and consultants build successful money generating careers for themselves in the First Nations industry while the different ‘living museum species’ in remote communities languish. The Australian taxpayer train is gushing gravy all over the tracks.

We can look at the closed to the public township of Mutitjulu as an example of how one town in the remote community system works. The Aboriginal Community of Mutitjulu is situated at the base of Ayers Rock, Northern Territory. The Mutitjulu community aboriginal corporation is the not for profit manager of Mutitjulu. Electricity, water, and a reticulated sewerage system are supplied by Parks Australia. The community in 2017 obtained a town lease which frees it from the Commonwealth Director of National Park’s responsibility. Among the benefits of this town lease was 10 million dollars to upgrade housing and 2 million dollars for commercial development in a town with a population of around 300 people. Simple sums $40,000- taxpayer gift to every man woman and child to live in a segregated closed community in modern Australia.

The non-tourist visitor accommodation complex has 16 single bed en suite rooms inside the compound for contractors and stakeholders. The accommodation cost is $150+gst per night per room.

The traditional owners from the town living in the aged care centre have been taken on camel rides at Ayers Rock and taken on flights over the Rock – a special right reserved for traditional landowners. “The men up one day, and the women up the next, because there are very different areas on the rock where women or men can’t go.”

Using the Business Incubator Pilot Program a second-hand store was planned to be established with a suitable community member selected to own and run the store business after being trained. The owner was expected to pay a nominal rent and the store was being supplied with donated goods from many outside sources.

Income is received by the community from Parks Australia and tourism visiting the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and heartfelt donations are requested of tourists staying at the remote community owned tourist town of Yulara.  Yet the people living in Mutitjulu do not live in any sort of luxury.

At the Barunga sports and cultural festival in 1988, Bob Hawke promised the aboriginal activists an indigenous treaty. A 68 page draft treaty was written after consultation with the Sovereign Aboriginal Coalition at Alice Springs.

The draft treaty included recognition of Aboriginal ownership of Australia and the establishment of a separate Aboriginal nation of states and among other things an agreement that 40% of the total land mass of each Australian state be transferred to permanent Aboriginal title, and an automatic transference of a percentage of Australian tax revenue to the Aboriginal nations. The Aboriginal nation wants to operate an independent legal system subject only to international law.

Some local First Nations people say that it is the disrespect and disregard shown for their wishes not being followed is why they wanted the climb closed. Everything is about the select few. The First Nations activists also say they have a governing system but the whitefella government has been acting in a way that breaches their laws. Then they want support from the whitefella government to hear what they blackfella’s need and help them by paying for it. The ‘fruitful hunter’ mentality in live action.

The percentage of climbers at Ayers Rock has dropped dramatically from many to zero in the 40 years since the National Park was given away to a few elite activists. Zero climbers now due to the progressive increase in the size of and the number of multiple language signs at the entrance. Advertisements and guides at the 100% First Nations-owned retail outlet cultural centre and Ininti café telling tourists to abstain from the climb or feel guilty and bad. And the deriving and implementation of a strategic plan that deliberately and meticulously took away people’s personal liberty to walk over a nature given rock.

In 2016 via a NITV interview Adam Giles of mixed blackfella, whitefella, genealogy was warned by the chairperson of the Central Land Council to “stop talking about ‘Uluru’ as you don’t have authority to talk about it”. That “he could get sick if he keeps talking” because if someone talks about something they should not according to customary law then that person will have bad luck. “The issue of climbing is not an issue of safety, but an issue of ceremony, and traditional owners want ceremony protected”. Warren Snowdon Labor MP told Adam Giles to “button his lip and show some respect”.

In 1920 Ayers Rock and Mount Olga were included in the Southwest Reserve, part of a larger system of protected areas set aside as sanctuaries for local native people. In the 1940’s the reserves were reduced in size.

Anthropologists and missionaries residing in Central Australia in the 1930’s have recorded that “young Aboriginal men and women were no longer interested in preserving traditional Aboriginal ways”. The elders, the initiated men, bemoaned to the anthropologists that none of them had sons or grandsons trustworthy enough to be deputised with the oral secrets of their sacred objects, chants and ceremonies.

A dirt road to Ayers Rock was constructed in 1948. Until then tourists to the area were few. As the ‘rock’ became known about the number of tourists grew, so did the number of local natives camping in the area. In 1964 the government established a new settlement at Docker River to house and support this growing number of sedentary local native campers.

Over numerous decades, the 1940’s 1950’s and 1960’s members of the local native Mutitjulu clan endorsed climbing the Rock and guided many people to the top including anthropologist Charles Mountford and Lou Borgelt who have published details of their experiences.

In the 1970’s the elders stated they did not want tourists to stop climbing Ayers Rock. The elders and others climbed to the top of the rock to hold ceremonies and enjoy the view.

People of today say “Everyone has a right to experience this place on their own terms without being bothered by petty bureaucracy and the religious views of others”.

An exceptional natural phenomenon on crown land, Ayers Rock and surrounds, was first declared an all Australian citizen owned National Park in 1950. To reinforce the area was an all Australian citizens owned National Park its status was confirmed as such under Commonwealth law on 24 May 1977.

Or was the change in legal status due to some in the political real world knowing it needed to be before it could be given away to a select privileged few activists as freehold land?

By 1985 Ayers Rock was known as one of Australia’s most popular tourist sites, a place of cultural pilgrimage. At its base the resort-hotel-camping complex among the locals provided lodgings to the long haul truck drivers and around half a million visitors a year. Some tourists camped near the Mutitjulu Waterhole.

On 26 October 1985 the Labor Hawke Australian Government stripped the property right of all Australian citizens and handed freehold title deeds of the place of pilgrimage collectively to around 104 First Nations people categorised as ‘The traditional owners’.  

This microscopic number, of the lucky country’s Australian citizens then made a money generating perpetual lease to the Commonwealth government to create a ‘National Park’ that was already a National Park.

Are you scratching your head?

The new owners wanted a 50 year lease. The government agreed to a 99 year lease. Freehold titled land leased to the Director of National Parks which would then be jointly managed under a board made up of a majority of First Nations peoples.

Very racist and deceptive acts by the government of the day. A wrong that needs to be righted before the National Park no longer exists and the elite few stop access to all areas as it will be inaccessible private land with trespass restrictions. Just like the climb is now.

Empty promises were made by the then elders representing the new freehold owners. The promises included that the National Park would always be available for the benefit of all Australians as a celebrated place of pilgrimage. New restrictions on the park’s use would be rare they promised, and for the visiting tourist business as usual would continue.  

This symbolic and pageantry reconciliation ‘hand-back’ is celebrated in the National Park every year and the desire of the park board to respect and preserve their explicit culture and religion is pretentious. 

On 26 October 2019, a significant date marking the 34th anniversary of the Ayers Rock give away, to climb the ‘rock’ was authoritatively banned. Made a trespass on private land. The historic guide chain including 138 posts drilled into the side of the rock that were joined together with 400 metres of link rope covering the steepest part of the 1.6 km route up the side of the rock were removed.

A few elite activists, given power by the Hawke government, to take away the liberty of all Australians and other travellers from around the world based on nonsensical secret men’s business whims.

Peter Severin a cattle station pioneer who was asked to lay the chain up Ayers Rock in 1963 has stated removing the chain was a stupid idea as Ayers Rock belongs to all Australians. He believes people should climb the rock as it is an exhilarating experience. He affirmed that the chain was installed to reassure climbers rather than as a safety measure. People have been filmed running up the rock next to the chains others held onto the chains as they walked up the steep slope. Even if the weather was windy Peter stated there was no, on the cards danger, in the climb. He wants the authorities to respect Ayers Rock’s significance to all Australians.

“Ayers Rock belongs to all Australians,” Peter Severin said, “I don’t know why one would want to cut the chains after 50-plus years of it having been erected — and enjoyed by — tourists.”

Another Australian history wipe-out.

Peter’s history in the area commenced in 1956 on Curtin Springs Station 100 km east of Ayers Rock. He and his wife Dawn ran a 1,028,960 acre privately owned cattle station and tourist destination. The property boasts a huge diversity in landscape and activity. The family have lived on the station for four generations and run British breed cattle (not Brahmans) with a composite herd serviced by Murray Grey bulls. The entire station is a wildlife corridor with diverse vegetation and a 7-10 year rain cycle. With no surface water on the station all the water they use comes from underground.

The Ayers Rock national park was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987 when the international community recognised its spectacular geological formations, rare plants and animals, and outstanding natural beauty. Parks Australia has an obligation to protect the park’s World Heritage values for the benefit of everyone.

In 1993 the land was officially renamed by eight elders on behalf of the couple of hundred Mutitjulu populace as Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

In a broken promise from those ancestors who have gone before the ability to climb and explore the National Park area has been taken away by the modern day freehold owners. The ban on climbing Central Australia’s most famous landmark has done nothing to help anyone or anything. The ban on climbing this natural wonder of the world is not about culture or religion or safety it is about promoting a First Nations cult.

As with most physical activity some people have accidentally twisted their ankle and worn the wrong shoes and neglected to take water with them and suffered from the heat and found the climb difficult because of their lack of fitness or health condition.

The ban has nothing to do with saving lives from misadventure on the rock either. In the last two decades that climbing was allowed two deaths occurred. Both were men who died of heart-attack. A natural, common cause of death. One man was a 76 year old Japanese tourist. Regardless of the cause the number of deaths in comparison with the total number of climbers is infinitesimal.

The most laughable reason for the traditional owner’s ban is because some people have relieve themselves at the top of the rock in the open as there are no toilets up there. History has not given the world any evidence of Australian local natives or the ancestor Mala men relieving themselves in a toilet up there or anywhere else around the countryside before the whitefella arrived.   

The ban is a notable drill in political power by a political movement with a cult motivation. The First Nations is a worldwide organized group whose purpose is to dominate devoted members and society through psychological manipulation and pressure strategies.    

This modern generation of First Nations activists describe their forbears not as members of clans or tribes but as the sovereign people of First nations, who were wrongfully dispossessed by the whitefella invaders. These people now represent an identity group who demand special rights for themselves because they make a claim that their ancestors ostensibly got here before everyone else.

In 1983, British Royals, Prince Charles and his then wife Princess Diana climbed Ayers Rock without any guilt pressure. It was the natural thing to do when visiting the iconic rock. In the making of ‘The Crown’ Netflix filmed the episode of the royals’ 1983 Australia tour was recorded entirely outside of Australia, in Almeria and Malaga, located in Spain. Visual effects were used to superimpose Ayers Rock on to the backdrop of the Spanish desert for fear of upsetting the traditional owners by filming their sacred site.

In 2014, British Royals, Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge took part in a guided walk around ‘Uluru’ after being given a welcome to country, including traditional Indigenous dance performance, and dot painting art demonstration at the National Park’s cultural centre. A climb was out of the question – too sensitive to merit any media discussion. The elders wanted to teach the Royals about the importance of the rock to them the traditional owners. Prince William received a spear made from a Mulga tree and the couple were shown the 1996 First Nations Australia sovereign map of their country.

The limitations placed on the media covered visit exposed the intent of management for the new generation of royals. Be indoctrinated in our ways rather than conquer the rock or partake in what your previous generation freely did.

In 1983 there were tourists staying in the area nearby Ayers Rock but that has changed. The place where tourists stayed when they visited was moved further away so the First Nations people could be isolated into their own closed remote community.

Rather than mend the local native problems, ownership of Ayers Rock has deepened them. Instead of creating a First Nations economy, the income from the national park has been handled as “sit-down money”, an easy form of hand-out. The local tourist industry was not something many locals were first interested in as most lived on welfare and two-thirds of their income was passively derived. A few had employment as part-times guides telling stories to the tourists. Most building and maintenance work was done by outside contractors.

Today the local First Nations people say they ‘work hard to protect their lengthy, fascinating history, and continue to live in the same way their ancestors did thousands of years ago’. This propaganda is utter nonsense and an insult to anyone who loves Australia.

In 1983 the Prime Minister of the day Bob Hawke announced the government’s political intention to grant ownership of the land to the ‘traditional owners’ to right our country’s historical wrongs against them. A symbolic gesture that does nothing to address the myriad social problems endured by some of local native descendants living in the area.

A large portion of Ayers Rock surrounds are First Nations Protected Area. Many of the modern day mixed up local native descendants live in a trash-strewn community near the eastern end of the rock in an area that is closed to visitors. The management plan for them is clear, keep them separate from and uneducated in modern Australia ways to preserve traditional customs and law. The gated community elders reserve the right to forbid visitors from entering their land. Even though people live in the same closed town they are not one community connected as a whole.  

Mutitjulu is the crisis community that triggered the Northern Territory intervention in 2007. Anglo-European education standards at Mutitjulu, have been reported as far lower than the Australian average. The township has had graffiti sprawled over many of its buildings, some of which were damaged beyond repair.

The Mutitjulu community at Ayers Rock has been reported as a very typical remote community, albeit more English is spoken by most residents chiefly due to the regular exposure to tourists. Mutitjulu houses people from three detached Anangu tribal mobs — Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra. Claims are made that the mobs today still hunt, gather and prepare foods according to their ancient law.

Many different parts of plants and animals are said to be used to ensure no resource is wasted. Important traditional use includes the heavy, hard wood of the mulga tree which is the main source of firewood for cooking and smoking meat. The tree’s larger branches and trunk are carved into spear throwers, barbs, spearheads, boomerangs and digging sticks. The leafy branches are used to build shelters and windbreaks. The Mulga trees supply staple foods. Ground mulga seeds mixed with a little water make a wholesome paste. Collected Mulga apples are eaten when they ripen to a reddish colour. Certain insects deposit clear sweet lumps along smaller branches and are eaten as a lolly treat. Hmm!

A question that needs to be answered is why taxpayer funding is continually being provided to townships that deliberately segregate a ‘media magnet’ ‘purely eternal’ ethnic group of people born in Australia. Townships based on the ethos ‘your culture has interrupted my culture, go away’.

Australians need to be educated in the truth of the Ayers Rock give away and demand it be given back to all Australians that it was stolen from.