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Traditional owners of Kakadu National Park have warned they will close parts of the tourism hotspot after claims it has fallen into “disrepair”.
An investigation carried out by the ABC’s
Four Corners has revealed several Indigenous traditional owners of key tourism spots at the World Heritage site have called out Parks Australia for “mismanagement”.
Jonathan Nadji, a traditional owner and member of the board that oversees Kakadu, said he is prepared to close access to one of the park’s biggest drawcards: the lookout and rock art of Ubirr.
“It’s about time we started making an impact by basically shutting down the park. And I will shut down Ubirr,” he said, according to