Tourist Ban Floated for Australia’s Biggest Lake

Visitors will no longer be able to set foot on one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations under a proposed plan to protect its cultural significance for traditional owners. Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is the continent’s largest lake. Every few years it breaks out into a spectacular kaleidoscope of colours when flooding rains from Queensland fill the immense saltwater basin, transforming the bleak desert landscape into an oasis of flowers and birds and attracting scores of tourists. But it is a sacred site for the Arabana people, who have lived in the region for millennia and are the lake’s native title holders....