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| The Proposal for the 32nd Olympiad and 2020 Universal Exposition expo2020lympiad uluru The Proposal to create a
new city of 400,000 in the heart of the Australian continent, a world
capital for Indigenous Studies and Public Policy, and host the 32nd Olympiad and 2020 Universal Exposition Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Annexation of New South Wales by Captain James Cook at Possession Island Cape York Peninsula New South Wales 21 August 1770 Australia is a proud participant in World Expositions and Olympiads - with her Pavilions and sporting teams rating amongst the World's best. The next two World Expositions - Zaragoza Spain 2008 and Shanghai China 2010 - and the next Olympiads, the 2008 Beijing, 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London Olympiads give Australia further cause to be proud on the world stage. But Australia - and the World Expositions and the Olympic movement - can do much more. Little have we seen since the beginning of World Expositions and the Games of the modern era, a City that has been able to hold both these events at the same time - creating great synergies in information and personal exchange - in the arts, sports, and leisure. Australia is a sports-loving nation - and revels in the arts, culture and recreation. She has a young and diverse coastal population - one of the most urbanised populations on earth - with infrastructure and development world's best practice. However, many Australians know little of their own continent's many-millennia old stories, dreamtime, languages and culture, and many parts of the Australia interior remain undeveloped, despite great beauty and potential for development, which could provide respite for a new category of Australian, indigenous, and world citizen - an oasis for a tired world. Furthermore, Australia has not hosted a World Exposition since 1988 in Brisbane - to celebrate the Bicentennial of European settlement - nor has she ever hosted a Universal or 'Class One' Exposition - in the style of Brussels '58, Montreal '67, Osaka '70, or Seville '92 - or indeed tackled a joint Universal Exposition and Olympic Games, a sight unseen since 1900 Paris and 1904 St Louis. Universal Expositions celebrate mankind's achievements on a grand scale - as well as marks in time - unique to the nation, and all mankind. They are renowned for their universal contribution to mankind - not only in architecture - but also through addressing a broad theme of human endeavour - such as 'Discovery' for Seville - to mark the Fifth Centenary of the Discovery of the Americas - and 'Man and His World', for Montreal, celebrating the Centenary of Canadian Confederation. The Olympic Games of the modern era - too - are a focus of mankind's activities - a stocktake of our sporting achievements - unique to each city and epoch of the Games itself. A joint Expo-Olympiad - an exp0lympiad - brings these two diverse celebrations and combines them in a cosmic symbiosis, with each event supporting the other in a myriad of personal and information exchange - a global village that extends far into the future, our futures, and reminds us of our role as global - and local - citizens. expo2020lympiad uluru is a proposal to bring all these themes together - to create a new City of 400,000 in the heart of the Australian continent, a world centre for Indigenous Studies and Public Policy, and host the 2020 Universal Exposition and 32nd Olympiad in the heart of the indigenous Australian continent at the foot of the majestic monolith and the rocks of Kata-tjuta, in the Northern Territory - as the highlight of the 250th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Annexation of Australia by Captain James Cook, 21 August 1770. View: Cook's Journal [The Voyage of the Endeavour: 1773] expo2020lympiad uluru would explore a timely world theme - 'Respect and Preservation of the World's Indigenous Cultures' - forcing an inward examination of the role of colonisation concomittant with the outward expansion of indigenous values - re-generating and re-incorporating our ancestral links to our modern lifestyles - through the themes of indigenous peoples and the cultural and physical links to the land, how this has developed through time, and how we can best assimilate this knowledge into our day to day life. ![]() ![]() ![]() expo2020lympiad
uluru Site Map - the City of Uluru (Click to View Detail) - Ayers Rock
Resort and Uluru Today It would engage the world with the dramatic backdrop of Uluru and Kata-tjuta, magnificient blue skies and red sand, brilliant sunrises and sunsets - and become the catalyst for development at Uluru - a new Australian and World capital - a self-legislating and self-governing authority - and a World and University centre for Public Policy and Indigenous Studies - connected by world-class telecommunications and transport infrastructure including very fast high-speed train links to Alice Springs and Sydney - linking the Alice and Uluru in just under one hour - in conjunction with a uniform freeway and conventional rail system that links Uluru City with the major Australian population centres of Palmerston, Brisbane, Sydney, and Adelaide. A three-stage project that establishes a world-wide template for new laws in technology, law, and society - all the nations on earth will be asked to send 2,000 of their citizens to become dual citizens of Uluru - and contribute in the building of Uluru City itself - where new construction and logistics technologies allow a City of 400,000 persons to be built in the space of just two years - two nations per week arriving from 2018 in the lead-up to the exp0lympiad - and the second stage - where exp0lympiad staff, competitors, and delegates arrive - and visitors from all over the globe - taking their place at whole villages of tailor made accommodation - catering for all budgets and requirements - from dormitory-style back-packer accommodation to 5-star - converted to residential at the exp0lympiad's conclusion. Furthermore visitors and eVisitors shall count as equals at expo2020lympiad uluru where interactive web-cameras will allow exploration of every facet of the Exposition and Olympiad - from the Entrance Gates to each venue and the most intricate detail of individual Pavilion displays - rich with hyperlinked content, and with entertaining and informative multi-lingual avatar guides to suggest, interact with, and educate. The Digital Alexandria Library Uluru is the crowning achievement and permanent eternal legacy of expo2020lympiad uluru - where every participant nation is invited to contribute 10,000 of their most indicative and outstanding literary works - to be cross-referenced and translated into every language on earth - with data compression technologies that allow for instantaneous access - and no charges either for download quantity or speed - mirrored in select government and university servers at the conclusion of the exp0lympiad - a universal digital library for all mankind - for all times - and completely free. Stage III begins at expo2020lympiad's conclusion - a 20-year project - recording every minutae of human economic and social interaction - allowing a virtual and real-world interaction in every facet of life at Uluru - that builds a new third millennium foundation for mankind's inhabitation on the planet - analyzing data recorded in every field of human endeavour - which is then celebrated and disseminated to the World at the expo2040lympiad uluru - a 20-year retrospective and arrow to the future - where the exp0lympiad spirit is propelled to encircle the earth every duo-decade - 2060, 2080, 2100, 2120 - a perpetual cultural and sporting festival that propels mankind further, farther, and faster - to our own solar system and beyond. ![]() The expo2020lympiad uluru symbol tower - standing at 1,000 metres - will be the tallest building in the world. A
symbol tower, representing the endurance and domination of Australia's
indigenous peoples over the land, shall stand side-by-side with Uluru,
reaching some 1,000 metres high - the tallest structure in the World -
and take the form of a
desert Australian indigenous male, standing on one leg, with spear for
support, surveying the
horizon - becoming Australia's own 'Statue of Liberty'. Uluru - Capital of the World Anno Domini 2020 For it's six month duration, Uluru will play capital of Australia, and capital of the World, attracting nations, corporations and individuals from all walks of life, colours, creeds, and backgrounds. It shall be a global rendezvous - celebrating the rich culture of our most important cultural and historical vanguards - in mankind's successful conquest of the start of the third decade of the new millennium. I invite you to take part in this historic process - at the expo2020lympiad uluru eGroup - a Foundation Expo '88 AOL Group at http://groups.aol.com/expo2020lympiad, moderated by the Foundation Executive Director, John McGregor. Further Information ![]() Visit Australian Explorers Visit the Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal Visit Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park Office Website Visit the Wikipedia reference listing for Uluru. View the Wikipedia reference listing for Captain James Cook Proposal Time-Line 2005....................Disseminate Idea 2006/2007..........Generate Public Interest - Lobby Australian State and Federal Governments 2008/2009..........State/Federal Government Approval - Site Blueprints developed 2010 ...................expo2020lympiad uluru presentation in the Australia Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010 2011/2012..........Jointly lobby Bureau of International Exhibitions (B.I.E. - Paris), and the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C. - Lausanne) 2013....................Acceptance of bid by the B.I.E., and I.O.C. 2014/2015..........Official Invitations issued by the Federal Government to National, Multi-lateral Organisations, and Corporations 2016....................Commencement of Works 2019....................Conclusion of Works 2020....................expo2020lympiad uluru start! Images: [Top] expo2020lympiad uluru logo by, courtesy, copyright Foundation Expo '88 (1988-2007) Uluru [1] Panorama - Ben Thompson's Stuff Map of Australia - World Maps On-Line Indigenous Native with Spear [Image A1970] The George Washington Wilson Collection of Aberdeen University Image of Uluru [2] - Hungarian Ministry of Education Image of Ayers Rock Resort and Uluru by Voyages Hotels and Resorts Portrait of Cook by Webber - The National Portrait Gallery of Australia All Sketches and Composite Imagery by Foundation Expo '88 |