Mereenie Loop Road permit

Do you need one? Yes.
Are you supposed to? Yes.

Permits are there for those who want to apply for them

So if it makes you feel good to get one then go for it.

They serve no purpose whatsoever.

Cheers

Gee, I've always assumed the permits are there because those whose land it is require that anyone who enters that land to get one. I personally find them a pain, and I do not know what purpose they serve, but I make the effort to do the right thing. Basic as that.
Nats.

Not quite so Willem. the mereenie loop permit comes with a booklet with the places of intrest. Almost makes it worth a couple of bucks and seeing as it is available from the TB which youd probably visit anyway theres no mucking about with the land councils etc

That's not what I said, Davoe

I know what the Mereenie Loop Road permit entails apart from the fact that the road is normally in poor condition. I drove along part of it in 2006. I had a permit from the Land Council for an area beyond Mereenie. In this instance I applied for a permit to enter on to land that is normally beyond the scope of the normal traveller. The permit was issued in the end but only after I had left the area. Sometimes bureaucracies like the Land Councils bog down in their own inefficiencies.

Most permit applications are for transit through aboriginal land. This is a moot point as to who owns what or whose land it was etc etc. Today is today and we should all live under one law. Unfortunately that is not the reality of the situation.

I could go on. Suffice to say, I apply for a permit when I deem it necessary. Other times I don't bother. In all my years of getting and not getting permits after the inception of Land Rights in 1975, I have not once been asked to produce one. In fact I have rarely seen other humans where I have travelled in permit designated country.

Cheers

I see what you mean .... there are no checks on whether or not you do the right thing. It all depends on your personal sense of honour.
Nats.

Sense of honour?
The local blackfellas are paid millions of dollars in royalties each year for it to go through their land.
The road was built and is maintained with tax payers dollars, and the only people who are supposed to pay to use it are the ones who paid to build it?
There is no way Ill pay to use it.
Cheers

I see what you mean .....it all depends on your personal sense of grievance.
Nats.