6 Nov 2017

Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 6 November 2017

Kennedy talks to Kathryn from Uluru/Ayers Rock where he is guiding a National Geographic expedition. Climbing Uluru will be prohibited from October 2019, which illustrates the rapid shift in public opinion from entitlement to climb, to respect for the wishes of the traditional owners.

The mesmerising monolith of Uluru draws almost half a million visitors a year

Desert oaks at sunset at Uluru

Field of Lights art installation at Uluru

"Her Story," a dramatisation of the lives of female convicts, is performed daily at the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart

Visitors walk the base trail at Uluru

Adult and juvenile desert oak trees: the signature tree species at in Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park

Hobart features its colonial history in many ways, including sculptures on the foreshore

Thirty-six domes make up the Kata Tjuta outcrop, Uluru in distance at right

A willie wagtail bird flutters around Uluru at sunset

Signs throughout the park ask visitors to respect the wishes of traditional owners and not to climb Uluru. In 2019 the rock will be finally closed to climbing

Names give poignant recognition to more than a thousand transported convict women who suffered grievous privations in the early 1800s. Attitudes to convicts have changed considerably in recent years

Visitors touch the warm sandstone rock of Uluru