Aussies aren’t allowed to take photos of a big rock in their own country without applying for a permit. Some ‘culturally sensitive’ areas are not allowed to be photographed at all. The Rainbow Serpent hasn’t eaten anyone yet, so I’d say he’s okay with visitors taking photos
It has nothing to do with Cultural Heritage it is just a scam, because the Rainbow Serpent isn’t offended if visitors pay park entry pass, priced at $38 per adult for a three-day visit, and a separate photo permit, which costs $20 per day for photography or $250 per day for filming. Failure to comply with these rules can result in serious consequences, as demonstrated by a recent case where an Australian couple faced a lengthy email outlining 20 possible offences related to their social media posts, despite having removed footage of sacred sites.
When the greatest achievement of your culture is a rock then maybe you should stop celebrating your culture.
Coming to New Zealand Soon . Same money grabbing grifters will be trying it on here soon.
Pay koha to appease the imaginary taniwha or stop posting photos of our cultural tauonga on social media.
Are you joking ED , where do you think the Australian aborigines learnt this graft from, when it comes to race baiting and government handouts the Natives in our country are decades ahead ,the aborigines were treated horrendously compared to our Māori and are still being treated badly ,hunting and killing them for stealing crops was only outlawed in the 1920s if my memory serves me right ..
There are 100s of places on crown land in this country where “others” can’t go even if they were prepared to pay admission,,noisey radical Māori should look to Australia where the aboriginal people had been for 60,000 years or the USA where native Indians who had been on the land for 30,000 years were eradicated like vermin before blaming colonisation for all their problems when they only arrived here 3 or 4 hundred years before Europeans,, we are suffering Māori fatigue,all of us even the great majority of Maori who just want get on with life ..
Te tangata who scribbled on the rock at Taupo tried it on and got told to piss off.
But if you want to run, say, a radio-controlled speed boat race on the lake and the buoys for it have a bit of concrete that touches the bottom, it costs $3-400 to allow it to touch the bottom.
Worse than the local whore house in Masterton.
My advice to you, V, is don’t touch their bottoms.
its already here, only a month or so back was the fly fishing chap who iwi (taupo?) wanted money if he wanted to film for youtube.
In New Zealand, all it takes is koha to appease the taniwha and lift a tapu.
Translated into English, if you pay enough the natives will let you do anything.
Or a piece of paper to go and plunder the ocean and foreshore.
[1] It is about money.
[2] In Australia: There is a worry if sacred burial grounds or other things are found which add more evidence to the fact that the Aborigine was a late comer. Pygmies were there first. NZ and Australian school books from my era had lots of photos of Aborigines and Pygmies. Yes, Aborigines may have arrived in Australia 20,000+ years ago, but pygmies predate that.
[3] In NZ. There is a worry if sacred burial grounds or other things are found which add more evidence to the fact that there were people here also 20,000+ Years ago. Over the decades, burial sites have been found, caves with skeletons three foot high, heads the size of small chilly bin, etc.
Erasing history is lucrative. But it is also part of the Elite/WEF plan to destabilize countries so that the land ownership and wealth flow from landowners to “fake indigenous” to Blackrock, Vanguard, Elite.
It is the same reason all the world’s information is being sucked up into Gigawatt data centres. Re-writing history and converting the worlds population into droids, fed on bullshit. Cybermen, Borg, Jaffa… etc
Someone needs to film someone pissing on the fucking rock and chuck it on Rumble etc. Fuck these Abo Ferals.
Not enough ‘koha’ to the hapu & iwi???
….. a schedule due to a drafting oversight”. …..
….. the [Tauranga] Port has had to turn away a proposed new service to the Americas that would have provided New Zealand importers and exporters with an estimated $65 million to $90 million per annum in international freight savings,” …..
….. the port has been unable to reach an agreement with opposing iwi and hapū parties on the appropriate level of mitigation for cultural impacts. ….
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/ports/clearly-ludicrous-nz-court-halts-port-project-over-drafting-error
So are the Courts using maori lore “tikanga” to formulate their rulings in the guise of some technicality??? ….yeah right ….
I’ve been saying it for years if you are young enough to get the fuck outta this country do it,,you’re not abandoning your place of birth the system is abandoning our productive talented residents to ever higher taxes ever higher costs and ever fewer services ,have you been to an Auckland hospital emergency room lately?
The UK is a basket case thats going to need a second bailout from the IMF ,the way things are heading in this place we either face some severe austerity or line up behind the UK in DC for a handout…
If you’re capable of the move think seriously about it your children will thank you for it in the future, everyone knows our clown politicians are incapable of fixing this fcuking train wreck of a system, I’m old enough to remember Piggy Muldoon saying “there’s light at the end of the tunnel” I remember my dad laughing about it at the time WOW that must have been the early 80s I obviously slept through the good times…
Tikanga is a wide concept. It includes( but is not limited to) utu, plunder, cruelty, treachery, polygamy, infanticide, slavery, murder, cannibalism & genocide.
On the brighter side we are going to be able to book very expensive tickets for seats to see that wonder of international entertainment Pricilla Presley as she informs us all how life has been “after Elvis” LMFAO she’s gotta be in her late 80s ,hasn’t Elvis been gone for over 50 years? will there be a mad rush for tickets? has Pricilla blown the entire fortune ? holy crap.