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Australia holidays: Uluru s indigenous experiences and legendary landscapes
28 Feb, 2021 08:15 PM
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Field of light has brought a new focal point to Australia s red centre. Photo / Mark Pickthall, Supplied
Field of light has brought a new focal point to Australia s red centre. Photo / Mark Pickthall, Supplied
NZ Herald
By: Rob McFarland
The Red Centre is a captivating mix of legends and landscapes you ll want to add to your wishlist when the bubble is in place, writes
Rob McFarland
Leon Althouse is brandishing a curious wooden object shaped like a large tick. Called a Number 7, it s a type of non-returning boomerang used to hunt emu. Hurled from close quarters, it s designed to hook around the emu s legs. If you were lucky, he says, you might even get two.
Ordnance Survey expands from UK shores with app launch in Australia
Britain s national mapping agency is to help Australians get out and about
21 February 2021 • 9:00pm
Australia s Blue Mountains are among areas Ordnance Survey app users will be able to explore
Credit: Brook Mitchell /Getty Images AsiaPac
As many ill-equipped travellers have found, the Australian outback is a notoriously easy - and dangerous - place to get lost.
But navigating the country s vast empty spaces has become a little easier with an app developed by Britain s 230-year-old national mapping agency, in its first move beyond UK shores.
The Ordnance Survey has expanded its OS Maps app to help Australians navigate their local hiking, running and cycling routes, the first step in what it hopes will become a global expansion.
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When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. Sheâd âcrashed and burnedâ, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworths Caltex in her home town of Wynyard, on Tasmaniaâs north-west coast. For 18 months she healed, slowly rebuilding herself and, from behind the kiosk counter, finding the inspiration for a new approach to Aboriginal rights â a method that would, only four years later, start to bear fruit with then Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman.
The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service is set to permanently ban climbers from ascending Wollumbin in Northern NSW.
Government documents reveal the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are closely examining the possibility of permanently closing the site to climbers “due to safety risks and visitor impacts on Aboriginal cultural values”.
Wollumbin has been closed to climbers since March last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. In the documents, the NPWS identifies the interim closure to climbers as an opportunity to consult with the local Aboriginal community and tourism businesses.
Wollumbin is a sacred place for the Bundjalung people, who are custodians of the site. For many years, a sign at the base of the site has asked people to rethink climbing the mountain out of respect for its Traditional Owners.