We have mentioned before the fact that Traditional Owners prior to 1991 had no issues with tourists climbing or accessing many other sites at Ayers Rock. The evidence is quite clear that there was wide consultation with the Traditional Custodians about what was appropriate tourist access at Ayers Rock prior to the take over by the Federal Government in 1985. This snippet below from page 89 of In the Wake of the Tourist Chapter 3 (Dreamtime at Ayers Rock) further highlights the contradictions about tourist access being issued by the Board and Parks Australia. In banning the Climb and access to world heritage listed views, it's quite clear the Public have been sold a pup. "Derek Roff, senior ranger at Ayers Rock-Mt. Olga National Park in 1975, says older aborigines tend to answer questions the way they think the questioner wants them answered. He believes that younger militants take advantage of this to exaggerate the religious significance of Ayers Rock. A comm...
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It is right to Climb because we have the Right to climb. If you don’t exercise your rights you lose them. Don't let petty nanny state bureaucrats take them away.