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ANONYMOUS JONES'
AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION NEWSLETTER #31
THE RETURN OF AYERS ROCK
AYERS ROCK, Australia (AP), 10/27/85: The government gave
back Ayers Rock, the world's largest monolith and one of
Australia's biggest tourist attractions, to aborigines who
consider caves at its base to be sacred. The aborigines,
who claim descent from tribes that lived around the rock
about 30,000 years ago, immediately leased the monolith and
and the national park surrounding it back to the federal
government for 99 years. They will be paid $52,500 a year
and get 20 percent of admission fees. The aborigines also
will be on the park's board of management.
[Editor's Note: Remember when our own government wouldn't
even return a little old abandoned rock island (presently
rotting away from bureaucratic neglect, by the way) called
Alcatraz to the Apaches? Score one for the Aussies, your
emigration target of conscience...]
(C) 1985 by Anonymous Jones. All comments are welcome. Leave
them in the <C>omments Message Base addressed to ANONYMOUS JONES.