After around 13 years of uncomfortable relations between the white and black interests in the area, the Federally-funded Indigenous Land Corporation would pay $317 million to purchase the Ayers Rock Yulara Resort in 2010, completing a full circle of Anangu control of the land, along with the newly acquired resort infrastructure.
This immediately provided employment opportunities and the means to achieve a good measure of economic independence, all based upon the now mature Central Australian tourist industry.
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Redline and The Miss Australia Quest
This contest was a feature of Australian society for 93 years, beginning in 1907. From 1954 it became a major charity fundraising vehicle for the Cerebral Palsy Association of Australia under the guidance and sponsorship of Mr Bernard Dowd, the Australian franchise owner and local
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Several of Redline’s vehicles, usually adorned with special banners celebrating the girls aboard, would carry full compliments of Miss Australia Quest ‘highest individual money-raisers’ to the location of each year’s Miss Australia coronation ball.
Wherever the ball was to be held, Redline would make a fully inclusive group tour available from each eastern and southern capital city as a prize for the highest fundraisers from each state to attend the final. This would usually involve five coaches and drivers each year, on itineraries varying from approximately one to two weeks duration.
Redline packaged these prize-winning tours in order there would be no cost to the Quest organization, arranging and paying for all accommodation and meals, wherever possible using its regular year-round scheduled tour caterers. Rex found that usually they would readily provide their services gratis to support the