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Coniston / Michael Bradley.
- Title
- Coniston / Michael Bradley.
- Author
- Bradley, Michael,
- Publication
- Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- ix, 266 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- 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
- Subjects
- Northern Territory
- Massacres
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Australia
- Yurrkarrn / Coniston (South Central NT SF53-09)
- Yurrkuru / Brookes Soak (South Central NT SF53-09)
- Coniston
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > History
- Australia > Race relations
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Northern Territory > History > 20th century
- History
- 1900-1999
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
- Race relations
- Massacres > Australia > History
- Coniston Station (N.T.) > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781760801038
- 1760801038
- LCCN
- 40029642803
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries