[Snowy]

I'm not sure what sort of responses you're trying to elicit but Munro, deliberately confrontational and sensationalist foot-in-the-door journo that he is, has a point. Four men died there, best leave it be. That the museum curator didn't seek the cooperation of the AWM in my mind indicates he was more than aware of the ramifications of what he was doing.

I think this site draws comparison with that of the Beautiful Betsy, which I believe is now marked as a war grave. There are aircraft wrecks, and there are aircraft wreck grave sites and yes perhaps the RAAF should do more to protect them then what they are, and it seems they should be doing something about this site.

People's attitudes can be very subjective - artefacts raised from the Titanic were auctioned off a few years back, yet one and a half thousand people died in that disaster. On the other hand when the space shuttle Columbia broke up in 2003 killing all seven crew it was made a US federal offence to collect any debris, there were even reports of items appearing on eBay until they were quickly pulled.

Steve.