This picture on the front page of yesterday’s Weekend Australian in the final weeks before Uluru is finally closed to climbers, was breathtaking. A conga-line of cretins scrambling up its sacred ...

Hundreds of visitors lined up to climb Australia's Uluru Oct. 25, before a ban takes effect after a decades-long fight by indigenous people to close the trek.

Uluru is considered to be a place of spiritual significance by its indigenous custodians, the Anangu people, who have pleaded with tourists not to climb it for many years. RELATED: How much you ...

While most visitors do not climb Uluru's steep, red-ochre flanks, the impending Oct. 26 ban has triggered an upsurge in people taking advantage of a final opportunity to make the trek.

The number of people wanting to climb Uluru before the ban. The video shows hundreds lining up before 7am to scale Uluru, which will be closed to climbers from Saturday.

The overnight stay is just in time for the 40th anniversary of “Handback,” when the government returned the title deeds to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to the Anangu people in 1985.

But by the '80s, the political tide shifted, and the custodianship of the lands were handed back to the Anangu people. They leased Uluru-Kata Tjuta for use as a national park for 99 years, but ...

Aboriginal entertainer Jimmy Little says people who do things like this for publicity cross the line. He says it is an insult. "We are a proud race like every race in the world.

Uluru Statement advocates push referendum success in Reconciliation Week Professor Megan Davis believes the Statement brought "meat and bones and substance back to reconciliation".

The festival wraps up a week of questioning by the opposition about what the government’s commitment to the Uluru Statement of the Heart “in full” means, having pointed out that it calls for ...

PM meets former Liberal Pat Farmer at finish line in Uluru after 14,500km run to advocate for ... “I respect the right of people to vote whatever way they see fit in a democracy but vote on ...