It could be. When the agreement is redesigned you could build 'em their own casino up there. Maybe a parking lot at the bottom and a tram going up.
And a boutique and a swinging hot spot! The message is clear: please don't climb Uluru https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-03/maher-please-don27t-climb-uluru/4728726
Is that the optimum outcome? Can’t we make room for other people’s beliefs or is our modern world too inflexible when we consider money?
Here I "believed" Australia was going into Green Energy. Solar. Wind. Huge Must battery systems. So what is this aboot? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/climate/adani-australia-carmichael-mine.html Australia, in a Victory for Coal, Clears the Way for a Disputed Mine Plans for a fiercely contested coal mine in northeastern Australia received a long-awaited government green light on Thursday, less than a month after conservative politicians who champion coal triumphed in national elections. An environmental permit issued by the Queensland State government cleared the way for an Indian company, the Adani Group, to start work on the mine. The project had been tied up in court challenges and protests by environmentalists since it was first proposed eight years ago. Isn't there a really big reef out there, dying And it isn't even an Australian owned coal operation. Moi Don't ize, Australia!
Yes, and theres an entire planet dying. I’m torn between wishing the ignorant selfish bastards who are pushing for this mine ( and many others in the area) to be left on the junk heap of the unemployed if the mine is blocked. On the other hand a well financed re-training program should be offered to utilise these peoples skills on other less suicidal projects. But hey, we can’t expect logic to triumph of blind self interest. Don't ize, Australia[/QUOTE]
Everest has been particularly lethal (or rather, the mountain has been itself .. and the vanity of yumans was especially lethal) this season. Even still, give me snowy peaks any day. I'm not designed for steaming flatlands.
@Sallyally Think of the walkabout challenge and experience of self discovery it's all aboot me, no not you, ME your ferigners would pay grossly to experience instead of dying on Everest. Market "The Australian Experience" of self discovery. Would you rather freeze? Get Discovery Channel to do a series like "Naked and Afraid" to advertise the experience. But, no medical back up or production unit ruining the view of the paying customer. Film by drone.
Being baked to death in the outback would have limited appeal. How many Westerners could run down a roo and be able to find water out there? But the, it could be marketed as an acceptable alternative to Dignitas and have fewer restrictions than the Assisted Dying plan.
Funny but I’m one white westerner who’s spent enough time in the Australian outback to know how to look after myself. My only problem now would be my aged. As 73 my aim with a rifle, let alone a spear ain’t that steady anymore. I can still identify native food crops and still know which ones ar are poisonous and which one get you stoned. I still know how to find water but my legs won’t get me there plus that’s often local knowledge requiring locals to be with you.
Don't eat the gecko https://nypost.com/2019/07/02/man-dies-in-absolute-agony-10-days-after-eating-gecko-on-a-dare/
Congratulations Australia! https://news.yahoo.com/surgery-restores-arm-function-paralysed-patients-study-223522247.html Surgeons in Australia have managed to restore arm function in paralysed patients, allowing them to feed themselves, use tools and handle electronic devices, according to the results of a groundbreaking study released Friday. Thirteen young adults who had suffered spinal injuries rendering them tetraplegic underwent several operations and intense physiotherapy in the largest ever application of a technique known as nerve transfer surgery. . . . . "To all the people in the world who have spinal chord injury and to all the people who treat them, the message is 'it is possible to restore hand function and elbow function'," BTW they misspell cord as in spinal cord with musical confusion, "chord". Moi Don't ize, Australia!
Not bad having survived three days as an 8 year old lost in the Blue Mountains mid winter but I was lucky in finding the entrance to an abandoned mineshaft with shelter, clean water, firewood ( I had matches with me) and an ancient apple tree outside still loaded with fruit in early winter. However I guess if I hadn’t found that old mine entrance I may not have survived. I was lucky too. I woke one night to find a large snake sleeping with me. Thankfully it was very slow, probably still in a state of semi-hibernation.
