ein sehr interessanter Artikel aus der Wochenendausgabe der " The Australian "
link Hier http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24923372-601,00.html
ein Artikel kritisch gegenüber der Aboriginal Verwaltung des riesigen National parks , und wie der Besuch des Parks immer schwieriger gemacht von der Aborignal Park Verwaltung . es scheint viele Aboriginals wollen nicht in dem Touristengewerbe arbeiten es gefaellt ihnen wohl besser von der reichlichen Sozialhilfe zu leben .
Wieder wird ein wunderschönes stück Australien unzugänglich gemacht fuer die Mehrheit , damit eine geschützte Minderheit in ihrer oftmals Alkoholisierten Dreamtime leben kann . weitab der realitaet und von der Steuergeldern der Mehrheit unterstuetzt .
TEN years ago, along with the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru, Kakadu National Park completed the trifecta of must-see places to visit in Australia. Now it doesn't even make top-10 lists.
Options for visitors are miserably limited, whether in the dry or the wet. Right now, a person can have a poke around the Nourlangie rock art or do the Yellow Waters cruise. That's about it, unless you want to turn your back on nature and take a guided tour of the Ranger uranium mine, located a short distance east of Jabiru. A tour bus on a day trip from Darwin stops at Nourlangie. Most of the seats are empty. The handful of tourists use the toilets before being taken on a short guided rock art tour, conducted by a white tour guide
Park management, says Lindner, has leaned slavishly in favour of people taking slower "cultural" tours, but he complains, dismissively, that most local indigenous tour operators are of "mixed-race descent" or outsiders with little true knowledge. There are, in reality, only a small number of true traditional park owners. Lindner's wife is an Aboriginal woman, Patsy Raglan, who was raised in the park but whose country is in west Arnhem Land. She runs a dry-season bush tucker walking tour and is comfortable with tourists, but says most local Aborigines are not. "Members of my family don't like talking to tourists," she says. "They're scared of people, they're shy." "No, they'd rather take welfare money than work," thunders Lindner, a white man. "The park wants tourists to experience audio-visual cultural
at park headquarters. Visitors don't want that - they want to discover the park. But there is not one overnight walking track in the whole of the park that a tourist can take by themselves.
"We want less people, paying more," says Andy Ralph, who with his Aboriginal wife, Jenny, runs the Kakadu Culture Camp, which aims to provide more intimate tourism experiences that put visitors face-to-face with local Aborigines. "A lot of blackfellas aren't over the moon about tourism. You get asked the same dumb questions, and only a few are up for it. They do have some scepticism about international tourists who want to delve into their culture, but overall these tourists are happy to read the panels and go on a tour with a local guide." Ralph believes Kakadu can be appreciated only for its subtleties - it's not an in-your-face experience like the Rock. "What we don't want is people coming here with too great an expectation. And that's the problem with these ads about the place. Some are over the top." Ralph's tour takes only small groups. Not everyone can do it. The reality is that most people leave disappointed. And they never return.
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