By Dylan Welch
A French-born stripper has been filmed dancing near-naked on top of Aboriginal Australia's most sacred site, Uluru, in what she says is a homage to local indigenous people.
Alizee Sery, a 25-year-old exotic dancer, has been labelled ''stupid'' and local indigenous elders have described the act as the equivalent of defecating on the steps of the Vatican.
''I do not mean in any way, in what I did in my show … to offend the Aboriginal culture, I respect the Aboriginal and their culture,'' Ms Sery said after her strip show on the rock.
''What I did was a tribute to their culture, in a way.''
A screengrab of French stripper Alizee Sery performing a striptease on Uluru.
Ms Sery, who arranged to be filmed, can be seen climbing up the rock with a companion with a camera. She then strips off until she is wearing only an Akubra hat, bikini bottoms and white high heels. ''I think the way I was, was the perfect way to be up there, in total harmony with the land and with myself,'' she said.
''If I can do a strip on Ayers Rock, then anything is possible.''
She said her act was a tribute to former times when local tribes did not wear clothes.
''What we need to remember is that traditionally the Aboriginal people were living naked. So stripping down was a return to what it was like.''
Uluru is leased by the Anangu people to Parks Australia, in a similar arrangement to that applying to Kakadu National Park.
Some areas of the site are closed to visitors and the taking of photographs from certain angles is banned because of the significance the site plays in Anangu ceremonies.
The director of the Central Land Council, David Ross, told the ABC the stunt was an illustration of how many people ignored the traditional owners' requests not to climb Uluru.
He said the woman should be deported for her ''stupid'' act.
Alison Hunt, traditional owner and member of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Board of management said: "I am angry and disgusted at this stunt. This is an important spiritual place. It's not a tribute to the traditional owners, it's an insult.
"We try to share our land and work together and we think it is disgusting for someone to try and make money out of our sacred land."