Coniston by Michael Bradley - ISBN: 9781760801038
Paperback
A brutal massacre, a forgotten history. Reconciliation demands truth.

Coniston

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  • Paperback

    282 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 2019

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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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760801038
ISBN-10:1760801038
Author:Michael Bradley
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWA Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:282
Release Date:1 November 2019
Weight:454g
Dimensions:26mm x 234mm x 158mm

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