Finally, Uluru is closed for climbing. No more the frantic race to beat the last chance, yesterday. I hear that the ascent was on many folk's "bucket-lists" ( I have a bone to pick with such lists!) and I also read today that people knew it was disrespectful to climb the monolith but cheerfully did so anyway. Ah, such jocular self-condemnation!

I suspect that if a group of people regularly attempted to climb St Peter's dome, or abseil Westminster Cathedral, there would be a big media to-do and lines of police ready to make arrests. That is the one important difference. Respect is an aspect of power and the dominant cultural group usually holds most of it.

But something positive has come about, even if it is decades late in arriving.