SBS ExaminesSeason 2024Episode 87
Rapa Nui repatriations: Right or wrong?
PodcastNews and Current Affairs
The Australian Museum has repatriated the ancestral remains of 17 Rapa Nui islanders to their eastern Pacific place of origin. This homecoming has renewed calls for the return of giant statues, or Moai, from the British Museum. But a UK based archaeologist has warned against overturning historic arrangements made between consenting parties.