ape Grim massacre |
10 February 1828 |
Cape Grim, Van Diemen's Land(Tasmania) |
30 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians by four shepherds. |
Convincing Ground massacre |
1833–34 |
Portland, Victoria |
60–200 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians after a heated dispute between whalers and Aboriginal tribes. |
Pinjarra massacre |
28 October 1834 |
Pinjarra, Western Australia |
14–40 |
|
Massacre by British colonists led by Governor Stirling against the Pinjarup people. |
Waterloo Creek massacre/Slaughterhouse Creek massacre |
January 1838 |
Waterloo Creek, NSW |
40–70 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians as part of a clash between mounted police and Indigenous Australians. |
Hospital Creek Massacre |
1859 |
Brewarrina, NSW |
300-400 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians. A stockman at Walcha Hut on the Lawson run was warned by Aborigines to release an Aboriginal woman. He refused, and both he and the woman were killed. In retaliation, the settlers shot a large number of Aboriginal men, women and children in what became known as the Hospital Creek Massacre. |
Myall Creek massacre |
10 June 1838 |
Myall Creek, NSW |
27-30 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians. The attack was racially motivated, and subsequently the colonists who carried out the attack were hanged. |
Murdering Gully massacre |
1839 |
Mount Emu Creek, near Camperdown, Victoria |
35–40 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians undertaken by Frederick Taylor apparently in retaliation to Aborigines having killed the colonists' sheep. |
Campaspe Plains massacre |
June 1839 |
Campaspe Creek, Central Victoria |
up to 40 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians led by commander Charles Hutton as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of their lands. |
Shipwreck survivors of the Maria massacred |
1840 |
Coorong, SA |
25 |
|
Ship travelling from Port Adelaide to Hobart was shipwrecked on the SE coast of South Australia, with all surviving the wreck. The survivors were being guided to safety by the local Narrindjeri people, but were massacred. |
Gippsland massacres |
1840-1850 |
Gippsland, VIC |
300-1000 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians, combined with the introduction of diseases by the British Colonists which also contributed to the heavy losses of the Aborigines. The technical superiority of the Europeans' weapons gave the Europeans an absolute advantage over the Aborigines and, as a result, very few white settlers died during the course of the massacres. |
Cullin-la-ringo massacre |
17 October 1861 |
Central Queensland |
19 |
0 |
Massacre of newly-arrived white settlers by Indigenous Australians. In response, "sixty or seventy" Aborigines were massacred by a vigilante party of eleven heavily armed white settlers accompanied by two Aboriginal trackers.[1] |
Flying Foam massacre |
February–May 1868 |
Flying Foam Passage, WA |
20–150 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians after a series of confrontations between white settlers and Aboriginal people near the Flying Foam Passage. |
Palmer massacre |
August 1878 |
Palmer River, Queensland |
20–150 |
Unknown |
Massacre by Cantonese and Pekinese against each other.[2] |
Ching family murders |
16 November 1911 |
Alligator Creek, Mackay, Queensland |
6 |
0 |
George David Silva murdered six members of the Ching family by shooting and bashing. Silva was hanged at Boggo Road Gaol in Brisbane on 10 June 1912. |
Battle of Broken Hill |
1 January 1915 |
Broken Hill, New South Wales |
4 |
7 |
Spree shooting by two Ghans gunmen - Terror attack - by modern definition.[3][better source needed] |
Mowla Bluff massacre |
1916 |
Kimberley, Western Australia |
Up to 12[4] |
0 |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal Men, women and children were rounded up and subsequently shot and their bodies burned. |
Forrest River massacre |
May–July 1926 |
Kimberley Region of Western Australia |
11 |
Unknown |
Massacre of Indigenous Australians by law enforcement. |
Coniston massacre |
14 August – 18 October 1928 |
Coniston, Northern Territory |
60–170 |
Unknown |
Probably the last known massacre of Indigenous Australians. |
Boulder & Kalgoorlie bombings |
1 February 1942 |
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia |
14 |
15 |
Bombing of a boarding house containing 30 people in Boulder, Western Australia.[5] |
Hope Forest massacre |
6 September 1971 |
Hope Forest, SA |
10 |
0 |
Rampage killing by Clifford Bartholomew, who shot dead ten members of his family.[6] |
Whiskey Au Go Go fire |
8 March 1973 |
Fortitude Valley, Queensland |
15 |
Unknown |
Arson attack that killed 15 people and injured many more at a nightclub. |
Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing |
13 February 1978 |
Sydney, New South Wales |
5 |
11 |
Terrorism, bomb attack on hotel where world leaders were staying. 2 garbage collectors and 1 police officer died. |
Party Shooting Spree |
18 April 1982 |
Canley Heights, New South Wales |
2 |
8 |
Peter Sinfield, his brother Derek Sinfield along with friend Adrian John Mills, armed variously but Peter Sinfield with a rifle, gatecrashed a party and fired several shots that killed two people and severely wounding eight others. |
Campsie murders |
24 September 1981 |
Campsie, New South Wales |
5 |
0 |
Rampage killing by Fouad Daoud, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself.[7] |
Inland Motel murders |
18 August 1983 |
Uluru, Northern Territory |
5 |
16 |
Vehicular attack by Douglas Crabbe, who drove a truck into the bar of the Inland Motel after being refused service.[8] |
Wahroonga murders |
1 June 1984 |
Wahroonga, New South Wales |
5 |
0 |
Rampage killing by John Brandon, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself.[9] |
Milperra massacre |
2 September 1984 |
Milperra, New South Wales |
7 |
28 |
Shootout between two rival motorcycle gangs. One bystander was among those killed in the incident. |
Pymble shooting |
23 January 1987 |
Pymble, NSW |
4 |
|
Richard Maddrell went to the family home of his former girlfriend, shot her and 3 others.[10] |
Top End Shootings |
June 1987 |
Top End, Northern Territory |
5 |
|
Spree killing by Joseph Schwab over a five-day period. Shot dead by police. |
Hoddle Street massacre |
9 August 1987 |
Clifton Hill, Victoria |
7 |
19 |
A spree shooting by Julian Knight. |
Canley Vale Huynh family murders |
10 October 1987 |
Canley Vale, New South Wales |
5 |
|
Rampage killing by John Tran, who shot dead five members of a family. |
Queen Street massacre |
8 December 1987 |
Melbourne, Victoria |
8 |
5 |
A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Frank Vitkovic. |
Oenpelli shootings |
25 September 1988 |
Oenpelli, Northern Territory |
5 |
0 |
Rampage killing by Dennis Rostron, shooting six members of his family at a remote Arnhem Land outstation in Oenpelli.[11][12] |
Surry Hills shootings |
30 August 1990 |
Surry Hills, New South Wales |
5 |
7 |
A spree shooting by Paul Anthony Evers who killed five people and injured seven with a 12 gauge pump-action shotgun at a public housing precinct in Surry Hills before surrendering to police.[13] |
Strathfield massacre |
17 August 1991 |
Strathfield, New South Wales |
7 |
6 |
A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Wade Frankum. |
Central Coast massacre |
27 October 1992 |
Terrigal, New South Wales |
6 |
1 |
A spree shooting by Malcolm George Baker. |
Greenough Family Massacre |
21 February 1993 |
Greenough, Western Australia |
4 |
0 |
William Patrick Mitchell (Bill Mitchell) murdered Karen MacKenzie and her three children with an axe at their remote rural property in Greenough, Western Australia. |
1993 Cangai siege |
March 1993 |
Cangai, New South Wales |
5 |
0 |
Leonard Leabeater, Robert Steele and Raymond Bassett went on a nine-day rampage resulting in their taking hostages in a siege in a farmhouse at Hanging Rock Station in Cangai. |
Hillcrest murders |
25 January 1996 |
Hillcrest, Queensland |
6 |
0 |
Rampage killing by Peter May, who shot dead six members of his family before killing himself.[14] |