They see Ayers rock as a spiritual site because the rock rises from the land with nothing else in site. The Ayers rock was recently given back to the Aborigines, October 1985, but the Australian government has control over the tourism that takes place there. .

             The legislation regarding the land rights of the Aborigines has been debated for many years in Australia. Until recently the aborigines had few rights. These are the important legislation with regards to Aboriginal land rights.

             Legislation with regard to Aboriginal land right.

             1970 James Cook lands at the cost of Australia where today .

             there is Sydney. He takes possession of the land because he has the idea of „terra nullius" (= land that doesn't belong to anyone). As they see "not one inch of cultivated ground" they occupy the land in the name of this concept.

             1967 An addition to the constitution transforms the right to pass laws concerning the Aborigines from the individual states to the Federal government. The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders get the Australian citizenship.

             1975 The Racial Discrimination Act is enacted. It determines the equality of the Aborigines before the law and in daily life.

             1976 The federal government passes the first land right law: The Aboriginal Land Right Act. It concerns the Nothern Territories and allows the Aborigines to claim land where a traditionally relationship can be established.

             1983 The New South Wales Land Right Act recognizes that land in this state was traditionally owned by Aborigines, and allows them to claim vacant, unused Crown Land.

             1980`s The government policy changes from integration to self-determination. The resistance from the governments of the individual states increases. In prisons young black people die and proof is found of racial behavior.

             Oct. 1985 Uluru (better known by its European name 'Ayers Rock') is officially transferred to the Mutijulu Aboriginal community, on condition that continued access to the.