Kakaud National Park History

History Essay Question: Using one of the following contemporary issues, explain how this issue has been a significant development in Australia's social and cultural history. Kakadu is Australia's largest National Park, at 19,804 square kilometres. Legally it is Aboriginal land, leased to the Commonwealth Government since 1979. When experiencing the wonders of Kakadu National Park it is hard to look past the cultural and social significance it has had in Australian history. For over 40,000 years Aboriginal people …

…lives, their history and a means for them to relate back to their past. For non - indigenous Australian Kakadu has developed into a social means of money, trade, and tourism, in their history they see it has something they have overcome and defeated Aboriginals in. The white people see Kakadu as significant as it is their prize, they have built the mines on the land, and defeated aboriginal protests a protecting its cultural significance.