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Author Bradley, Michael, author

Title Coniston / Michael Bradley
Published Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2019
©2019

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 W'PONDS  994.29042 Bra/Con  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 266 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword -- Maps -- Author's note -- Prologue -- Central Australia, 1928 -- The murder of Fred Brooks -- The hunters -- August -- September -- 'A disgusting creature' -- October -- Heat on the home front -- The Board of Enquiry -- Dispersal -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgements
Summary Mowed them down wholesale!' With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant prospector at this isolated station by local Warlpiri triggered a series of police-led expeditions that ranged over vast areas for two months, as the hunting parties shot down victims by the dozen. The official death toll, declared by the whitewash federal inquiry as being all in self-defence, was 31. The real number was certainly multiples of that. Coniston has never before been fully researched and recorded; with this book that absence in Australia's history is now filled. As the last great mass killing in our country's genocidal past but an event largely unremembered, it reminds us that, without truth, there can be no reconciliation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History
Massacres -- Australia -- History
SUBJECT Coniston Station (N.T.) -- History -- 20th century
Northern Territory -- History -- 20th century
Australia -- Race relations
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9781760801038
1760801038