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Brodie Allen


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Just spent 20 minutes trying to drag and drop or upload etc etc a youtube site

onto this crazy site. Done it before many times but not in the hunt now.

 

Go to 

YouTube and enter:

Not an attractive site

and see what we have come to.

 

Might mention that Mount Warning here on the Gold Coast

is now out of bounds also for the same reasons.

Between indigenous and national parks and their restrictions

I reckon that it won't be long before I'm a fee paying tourist

in my own country.



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Corndoggy


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Well that says a lot for their cultural heritage. Pay us some money and it's yours.

And for me it's Ayres Rock. Always was, always will be.



-- Edited by Corndoggy on Wednesday 27th of August 2025 12:26:03 PM

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Ineedabiggerboat


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So the $5.7 billion the feds throw at them isnt enough?

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If someone decided to lounge around or sit on a headstone of one of your relatives or friends at the cemetery or climbed up a war memorial or the cenotaph would that cause you any concern? They are all located on public land, open to everyone. Or is it just about our sacred places, not theirs?

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Spoken like a true socialist. Its a big rock, turned on its side. Great view from up there.

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People trample over my parents graves eveytime they walk around the area they were planted. Doesnt worry me. I trample all over their relatives/friends when I'm there.

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DMaxer wrote:

If someone decided to lounge around or sit on a headstone of one of your relatives or friends at the cemetery or climbed up a war memorial or the cenotaph would that cause you any concern? They are all located on public land, open to everyone. Or is it just about our sacred places, not theirs?

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7239093/Aboriginal-elder-no-problem-tourists-climbing-Uluru.html



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Back over 50 years ago, Paddy Uluru was recognised as the primary aboriginal custodian of Ayers Rock as it was called at the time. He was quoted in the '70s as saying that climbing the rock is of not of cultural significance to aboriginal people and If tourists are stupid enough to climb the rock, they're welcome to it.

It was only in later years that claims of culturual significance came about. Further reading in Peter English's 1986 book "Storm over Uluru - The Greatest Hoax of All".

Edit: I see Rgren got in a few minutes before me with the reference to Paddy Uluru and his statement.

 



-- Edited by Are We Lost on Wednesday 27th of August 2025 10:22:07 PM

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One has to wonder just how many of these "sacred" sites are kosher.



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-- Edited by Magnarc on Thursday 28th of August 2025 08:54:24 AM





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-- Edited by Magnarc on Friday 29th of August 2025 07:29:24 AM

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How do you find an sacred site? With a geiger counter.

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