Australasia and the Pacific area has seen its 'fair share' of conflicts and many places still bear evidence of the wars.
Military sites are the tangible remains and hence reminders of past conflicts.
The regard in which sites of war are held is laden with overt and covert values, ranging from romanticism to abhorrence, from pride to sorrow. As time passes and the active participants of conflicts become fewer, new evaluations of places emerge. Regardless of the ideology brought to bear on these sites by individuals, the sites as a whole form part of the cultural heritage of the Australasian and Pacific region, and as such need to be managed conscientiously. Well informed decisions need to be made to maintain and interpret such sites for present and future generations. In the past decade much conservation and interpretation work has been done by a large number of people, but most of what has been done is disparate, with many practitioners working in virtual isolation.