In the meantime I have a few main updates for you in case you don't already know (links to permit applications you will find on our Handy Links page). It's only accessible via tour – Maralinga Tours in fact – to which you need to pre-arrange an entry permit with your choice of tour.
They deserve our admiration and respect, epecially from those of us who have experienced the extreme remote desert first hand. As Mick mentions above a lot of the interesting old tracks & historical features don't fall within this category, let alone trying to follow early explorer routes.
This is a copy of a post I put on the Len Beadell Facebook page on April 23rd -: Beadell Tours update - Connie Beadell & Mick Hutton want to let everyone know that their Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands permit application for their May "Gunbarrel 60th Anniversary" tour was denied (the SA leg of the Gunbarrel Highway, also know as the Giles Mulga Park Road), and that is after many years of successful and profitable visits through the APY including September 2017 where they visited Ninuku Arts with the group buying many wonderful Aboriginal paintings.
The Anne Beadell Highway has become a rather expensive route to tour....... 4WD touring is an ever-changing world that is hard to keep up with these days, even for those of us dealing with it every year...... Mick posted the following article on the ExplorOz website in 2010.
Surely the $33.4 billion dollars are doing something to improve life for the current generations of Indigenous who, just like everyone else, can't agree on their way forward (I am glad I am not on a committee to try and hash out a national treaty). deliberation by the Executive Council at a scheduled meeting. From our perspective it all sounds very good in theory, and may work well for the larger centres, but for the smaller more remote communities that we deal with?
Share. We have been granted special permissions to visit some wonderful places without a guide, which is realistically the only way that it currently works for operations such as ours in the regions that we travel.
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Mick & I and all of our fellow travellers have, during many visits, spent many thousands of dollars on artwork at Kalka alone (let alone other expenditure at community stores along the way, not to mention the cost of the permits themselves at $22 per person), a fact of which the artists and some of the managers are fully aware. What I am trying to do is make folk aware that access to places of interest that have been visited by travellers for decades in these new Determined Areas is now illegal without permission, which appears to be pretty hard to obtain going through the correct channels.
Finding someone to discuss these issues with is not as easy as it should be either.
BOOK HERE: https://maralingatours.com.au/bookings/ Some interesting facts about the Maralinga airfield ️. MARALINGA TOURS - $247.50 single, $412.50 for two - 3 days / 2 nights - includes camping fees, permits and a day bus tour - Maralinga Tours . As far as we understand it, you are supposed to apply to the relevant Prescribed Body Corporate for permit approval to do anything other than drive along what is still an official public access road; they are the body that represent and manage the rights of the native title holders for a particular area under the Native Title Act 1993. No permits are issued for travel between Maralinga and Emu. Connie Beadell & Mick Hutton
This may be old news to some but please read the rest of this short article. %%EOF Any person with have flu like symptoms (runny nose, mild cough or low-grade fever of 38oC or more) are not permitted entry and the General Managers to be informed. Mick & I have attempted to include direct Aboriginal participation in our tours but it is difficult in the more remote regions, mainly because even relaxed-paced tours such as ours do not have the time to wait for someone to accompany us on an outing (regardless of any arrangements made in advance and I'm talking days here). To change tack a little, I recently read through a document titled "listening looking learning : An Aboriginal Tourism Strategy for Western Australia 2006 - 2010" , basically aimed at the promotion of indigenous tourism opportunities but it does also include references to non-indigenous tourism business participation also. The spread of COVID19 to our remote communities is still a major concern. Note that tourist permits are only issued for travel within Maralinga Tjarutja lands on the Anne Beadell Highway and the road from Nullarbor Roadhouse via Cook to Vokes Hill. �?�r�nni��O���K/�jP5�f=�]�n�[u{��O �szjz.8m�:�BN�o+�)m�ׄ�xz?�"�Z�a+�[��r,z!ǴZs,���v��%��3|�[*�l � ���k
We already had permission to revisit the Ninuku Arts Centre on the Lands, but despite this our permit was refused. ).
They also had good memories of Len and his crew, relating funny stories of riding on the bonnet of his Land Rover, and Len having given them their very first lolly. It includes Aboriginal specific expenditure as well as their share of what the report calls "mainstream expenditure". For my write-up please see my Desert Update for 2018 - Desert Updates. Please see our Handy Links page for links to read more. Permits for travel on the Anne Beadell Highway South Australia Maralinga Tjarutja Lands (permit) Box 435 Ceduna SA 5690 Phone 08 8625 2946 Fax 08 8625 3076 Email: reception@maralinga.com.au Website: www.maralingatjarutja.com (permit pack available) Mamungari Conservation Park (camping fees) National Parks South Australia Box 569 Ceduna SA 5690 Phone 08 8625 3144 Fax 08 8625 3123 … This is the reply they received from the Permits Officer, on the same day they put in their permit applications, which means it did not appear to go through the usual channels i.e. Just to be clear, all they wanted was a few hours to go in from the border of WA on the Gunbarrel Hwy 15 kms to Kalka and west back out again.