WARNING: This website and links to other sources, contain images, names, or voices, of deceased people in text, etchings, photographs, film, audio recordings, news media, paintings and printed material. Although there are some memorials to conflicts that took place on the Australian frontier and to the people who were involved in them, the majority of the people who took part and the places where confrontations, killings and massacres took place, are not recognised. Compared to the many war memorials across the country, dedicated to the fallen in wars in which Australians have participated overseas, the lack of memorials to frontier conflict is a very sad indictment of the level of knowledge, understanding and compassion of governments and Australians generally about, and for, the people who gave their lives on the Australian colonial frontier. Types of memorials While memorials are often statues or monuments, they can come in many different forms such as books, films, gardens, graves, paintings, plaques, poetry, song or sites. Some memorials commemorate Aboriginal peoples who inhabited certain places before the arrival of colonists in 1788, but do not honour those who gave their lives in the defence of homelands from 1788 onwards. Examples of types of memorials follow. Queensland Forest Refuge: A memorial to Aboriginal people who gave their lives in frontier conflicts around Buderim, Queensland is located in the Buderim Forest Nature Refuge. Links to information about this memorial can be found below under Queensland listings. New South Wales Memorials to Dave Sands: While legendary boxer, Dave Sands, was not a hero of the frontier wars period, he was a warrior of the boxing world, inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1988. There several different kinds of memorials to Dave Sands (1926–1952), born David Ritchie at Burnt Bridge Mission near Kempsey, New South Wales. The types of memorials to Dave Sands are: a plaque at Stockton near Newcastle, read more at: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/sport/display/23070-dave-sands a monument near the Bandon Grove Bridge and a plaque at Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales You can read more about Dave Sands at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Sands and in the Australian Dictionary of Biography … Continue reading Memorials and Monuments – Australian frontier conflicts