{"id":13254,"date":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/big-change-tipped-for-top-aussie-tourist-attraction\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"big-change-tipped-for-top-aussie-tourist-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/big-change-tipped-for-top-aussie-tourist-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Change For Top Aussie Tourist Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>UPDATE, 2.13pm &#8212; CONFIRMED. Climbing Uluru will be banned from 2019.<\/h3>\n<p>STATEMENT from Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management chairman and senior Traditional Owner Sammy Wilson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For visitor safety, cultural, and environmental reasons the Director and the Board will work towards closure of the climb\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter much discussion, we\u2019ve decided it\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government needs to respect what we are saying about our culture in the same way it expects us to abide by its laws. It doesn\u2019t work with money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>EARLIER\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Climbing Uluru will be banned within two years, according to a report.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/news\/top-stories\/2017\/11\/01\/tourists-to-be-banned-from-climbing-uluru.html?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=59f92e2704d3016790776654&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a> says the rock\u2019s board of management will close it to climbers from October 26 2019 &#8212; 34 years to the day it was handed back to the Anangu people, the traditional ownesr.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"368\" width=\"654\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/uluru.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A board meeting on Wednesday is expected to unanimously support the ban after the latest stats revealed only 16 per cent of tourists climbed Uluru, making it the right time to ban it, according to management.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cOver the years Anangu have felt a sense of intimidation as if someone is holding a gun to our heads to keep it open,\u201d chairman and Anangu man Sammy Wilson told Sky.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tourists set to be banned from climbing Uluru <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3y9Wpmv5xR\">https:\/\/t.co\/3y9Wpmv5xR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FE4tpMytwn\">pic.twitter.com\/FE4tpMytwn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsAust\/status\/925552660023046147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, 2.13pm &#8212; CONFIRMED. Climbing Uluru will be banned from 2019. STATEMENT from Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management chairman and senior Traditional Owner Sammy Wilson: &#8220;For visitor safety, cultural, and environmental reasons the Director and the Board will work towards closure of the climb\u2026 \u201cAfter much discussion, we\u2019ve decided it\u2019s time. \u201cThe government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big Change For Top Aussie Tourist Attraction - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/big-change-tipped-for-top-aussie-tourist-attraction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Change For Top Aussie Tourist Attraction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE, 2.13pm &#8212; CONFIRMED. 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