When the UN used Uluru's sacred space as an advertising space | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Wed, 28/10/2015 - 2:57pm

Indigenous activists were outraged when the United Nations’ logo was projected on to the Aboriginal spiritual and cultural site

According to the Anangu, the traditional owners of Uluru in central Australia, it is not OK to climb the imposing red rock.

So why, then, was the United Nations permitted to illuminate what many Indigenous Australians – including the Anangu – rightly consider to be a most sacred Aboriginal spiritual and cultural site and to advertise its logo on its face?