It was given back to its original owners in 1985.
Aboriginals don't see themselves as owners of Australia but rather as part of it And their relation ship with uluru go's back about 30,000 years. Aboriginals have owned ularu ever since the world began
Uluru, in the Northern Territory of central Australia, is the second largest monolith in the world. Also notable, is that it appears to change color as the different light strikes it at different times of the day and year, with sunset being a particularly remarkable sight. Uluru is also special because the Aborigines consider it a sacred place, and it has many ancient paintings on it.
Uluru receives around 300,000 visitors per year, with numbers varying depending on factors like seasons and events.
No-one lives at Uluru itself. At the nearby Yulara resort, the 2006 census indicated a population of 1606.
Uluru is know as the Ayers Rock, it was created over 600 millions year. the rock is about 3.6km long, 1.9km wide.
The main issues surrounding Ayers Rock/Uluru concern the impact of tourists on the immediate environment, and the sacredness of Uluru to the indigenous people of Australia. The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is managed jointly by the Anangu Aborigines of central Australia and the Australian Director of National Parks. Jointly, they oversee and control the levels of tourism and manage environmental issues and indigenous spiritual and heritage issues concerning Uluru.
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Australian Aborigines are not a civilization, they are a people native to the Australian mainland including the island of Tasmania. It is widely believed that the first Aborigines migrated to Australia over 40,000 years ago.
For thousands of years, Uluru has been subject to erosion from the wind and the rain. Uluru lies in a vast, flat plain, and high winds can whip across the desert, throwing up sand particles which erode Uluru. Rainfalls, although rare, can be heavy, and the water will continue to pour down the surface in waterfalls for some time after the rain has stopped. Though it may seem smooth, close up there are caves, ridges, channels and rock pools holes on the surface of Uluru. The action of people climbing up the same route year after year also adds to the erosion issue. Having said that, however, the erosion is barely discernible over time.
Australia still has a healthy population of Aborigines. However, the last of the full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigines died in 1876 after the European settlers set out on a systematic campaign to remove them from the island.There are still Aborigines of Tasmanian descent, but they are not full-blooded.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's national apology to the Stolen Generations of Australian Aborigines occurred on 13 February 2008.