Jim and JLahrman: It's the locals trying to build it. The Indigenous Lands Corp. Tourism is a major industry for the NT (along with Defence and mining) and this is in attempt to boost that.
Again, the course wouldn't be visible from Uluru, so doesn't spoil the splendour of that view. I struggle to see how a golf course in 150 or so remote acres of a state measuring about 330 million acres spoils anything.
As for beer, you can drink VB, but to steal a phrase from Crocodile Dundee, "you can live on it, but it tastes like shit."
Cooper's is a safe bet though. No one would judge you for drinking Cooper's. Nigel's right, pretty much the only beer widely and strictly blackbanned is Foster's!