List of massacres in Australia
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The following is a list of massacres and mass murders that have occurred in Australia and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate).
Massacres
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Notes |
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Shipwreck of the Batavia | 1628 | Houtman Abrolhos (Western Australia) | 110 | Many | Dutch shipwreck survivors are murdered by a break-away group of survivors |
Cape 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 |
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 | All survivors were killed | 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 when they breached local law. |
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 white settlers by Indigenous Australians |
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.[1] |
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. |
Broken Hill massacre | 1 January 1915 | Broken Hill, New South Wales, | 4 | Spree shooting by two Ghans gunmen | |
Mowla Bluff massacre | 1916 | Kimberley, Western Australia | 300–400 | 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 |
Hope Forest massacre | 6 September 1971 | Hope Forest, SA | 10 | 0 | Rampage killing by Clifford Bartholomew, who shot dead ten members of his family[2] |
Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire | 8 March 1973 | Fortitude Valley, Queensland | 15 | Unknown | Arson attack that killed 15 people and injured many more at a nightclub |
Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane killings | 22 September 1976 | Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane | 2 | 4 | William Robert Wilson - Killed two people and wounded four on Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane. Wilson took a .22 calibre rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition to Boundary Street around 12.30 pm and began shooting randomly. He shot and killed Monika Schleus, aged 17, as she crossed Boundary Street. Wilson shot and wounded William Hepburn Galloway, who was also crossing the street. Proceeding to a milk bar, Wilson shot and killed Marianne Kalatzis, aged 18, and wounded Mavis Ethel Sanders and Virginia Hollidge. In the neighbouring shop he shot and wounded Quinto Alberti. Wilson was captured by police around 4:15 pm at a suburban house where Wilson was holding a man and four young women hostage. Wilson served three years in a mental hospital. On being found fit for trial, he was sentenced in 1980 to two life sentences for the murders and 10 years each, concurrently, for the four attempted murders. He pleaded guilty to all charges.[3] |
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[4] |
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.[5] |
Milperra massacre | 2 September 1984 | Milperra, New South Wales | 7 | 28 | Shootout between two rival motorcycle gangs. 1 bystander was among those killed in the incident |
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 | 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 5 members of a family | |
Queen Street massacre | 8 December 1987 | Melbourne, Victoria | 8 | A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Frank Vitkovic | |
Oenpelli shootings | 25 September 1988 | Oenpelli, Northern Territory | 6 | 0 | Rampage killing by Dennis Rostron, six members of his family at a remote Arnhem Land outstation in Oenpelli[6] |
Surry Hills shootings | 30 August 1990 | Surry Hills, New South Wales | 5 | 7 | A spree shooting by Paul Anthony Evers who killed 5 people and injured 7 with a 12 gauge pump-action shotgun at a public housing precinct in Surry Hills before surrendering to police.[7] |
Strathfield massacre | 17 August 1991 | Strathfield, New South Wales | 7 | A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Wade Frankum | |
Central Coast massacre | 27 October 1992 | Terrigal, New South Wales | 6 | A spree shooting by Malcolm George Baker | |
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[8] |
Port Arthur massacre | 28 April 1996 | Port Arthur, Tasmania | 35 | 24 | A spree shooting by Martin Bryant |
Snowtown murders | August 1992 – May 1999 | Snowtown, South Australia | 12 | unknown | attack by John Bunting, Robert Wagner, and James Vlassakis, a total of 12 bodies were found in acid filled barrels and rainwater tanks |
Childers Palace Backpackers fire | 23 June 2000 | Childers, Queensland | 15 | unknown | Arson attack by Robert Paul Long, which killed 15 international backpackers |
Monash University Shooting | 21 October 2002 | Melbourne, Victoria | 2 | 5 | A shooting spree by Huan Yun Xiang, a student at Monash University |
The Wynarka Bones Mystery | 15-19 December 2008 | Wynarka, South Australia | 2 | 0 | Daniel James Holdom killed Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and later, her 2 year old daughter Khandalyce. Both bodies were found years later in 2010. Karlie's body in the Belanglo State Forest NSW and Khandalyce's, weeks later in Wynarka SA. DNA matched them as mother and daughter in 2015. |
Churchill Fire | 7 February 2009 | Churchill, Victoria | 10 | unknown | Arson attack by Brendan Sokaluk that killed 10 people, during the Black Saturday bushfires period |
Lin family murders | 18 July 2009 | North Epping, New South Wales | 5 | unknown | Blunt instrument attack that killed 5 members of the Lin family |
2011 Hectorville siege | 29 April 2011 | Hectorville, South Australia | 3 | 3 | A shooting that took place on 29 April 2011, in Hectorville, South Australia. It began after a 39-year-old male, Donato Anthony Corbo, shot four people on a neighbouring property (three of whom died), and also wounded two police officers, before being arrested by Special Operations police after an eight-hour siege.[9] |
Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire | 18 November 2011 | Sydney, NSW | 11 | Arson attack by Roger Kingsley Dean, a nurse, which killed 11 people | |
Hunt family murders | 9 September 2014 | Lockhart, New South Wales | 4 | 0 | Murder-suicide shooting spree by Geoff Hunt who killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself |
Logan shooting | 22 October 2014 | Logan, Victoria | 3 | 0 | A shooting murder of a neighbour family (Greg Holmes, 48, his mother Mary Lockhart, 75, and her husband Peter Lockhart, 78) by Ian Francis Jamieson, 63.[10] |
Moama, Drug Deal Shooting | 12 November 2014 | Moama. NewSouth Wales | 2 | 0 | Shooting. Married couple and drug dealers, Jamie Edwards and Joelene Joyce, were found shot dead in their car. |
Sydney Siege | 15 - 16 December 2014 | Sydney, NSW | 3 | 4 | Siege. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. The NSW Special Tactics Force shot Monis dead, after he executing one hostage. In the melee five others were shot by Police fire, causing accidental death to one of them. |
Cairns child killings | 19 December 2014 | Cairns, Queensland | 8 | 1 (self-inflicted by perpetrator) | Stabbing attack. 8 children aged 18 months to 15 years killed. Thirty-seven-year-old woman also found injured. The woman, Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, was later charged with the murder of the children, 7 of whom were hers, plus her niece.[11] |
The Curtis Cheng Slaying | 2 October 2015 | Parramatta, New South Wales | 2 | 0 | Shooting. A radicalised 15 year old, Farhad Jabar, shot dead the NSW Police Force Accountant Curtis Cheng. Farhad was fatally shot by a Protective Services Officer. |
Port Lincoln Wharf Murder-Suicide | 4 January 2016 | Port Lincoln, South Australia | 3 | 0 | Shooting Drowning Murder-Suicide. Damien Little drove the family station wagon with his two sons (toddler and infant) of the wharf. A rifle had been found in the car and an autopsy "revealed they had all been shot before" the car entered the water. |
Ingleburn Shooting | 7 March 2016 | Ingleburn, New South Wales | 2 | 2 | Shooting Murder-Suicide. Wayne Williams walked into an Ingleburn workshop, with two, loaded, double-barrel, shotguns. He shot three brothers over a matter of money. Killing one, he then turned the final round onto himself. |
Back Packer Murders | 23 August 2016 | Townsville, Queensland | 2 | 1 | Stabbing. French national, Smail Ayad, stabbed to death Mia Ayliffe Chung and Ian Jackson. Wounding another in a back packer's hostile. |
Sydney Family Gassed | 17 October 2016 | Sydney, New South Wales | 4 | 0 | Gassing Murder-Suicide. Fernando Manrique (father), Maria Lutz (mother) and their two children aged 10 and 11 (son and daughter respectively), were all found gassed to death in their home. The father had apparently assembled and fixed pipe work into the roof and ceilings. The pipe work was then connected to gas bottles. The family had suffocated over night while they slept. It was said their pet dog was found dead with them. |
Murders over an extended period of time
Main article: List of Australian serial killers
- Eric Edgar Cooke murdered 8 people between 1959 and 1963.
- Backpacker murders - Ivan Milat killed seven international backpackers in the early 1990s, and is widely suspected of killing 30 more young adults.
- Melbourne gangland killings - 36 underworld figures murdered so far in gang related violence between 1998 and 2010.
- Snowtown murders - 12 murders committed from 1992 until 1999.
- John Wayne Glover - murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore over a fourteen-month period in 1989–90.
- Truro murders - murders of seven women from 1976 until 1977.
Miscellaneous
- Whiskey Au Go Go fire - Fire lit in club killed 15
- Douglas Crabbe - Truck driver deliberately crashed his truck into a hotel, killing five and badly wounding 16.
- Russell Street Bombing - 23 wounded when a car bomb ignites outside a Police Building. One of the wounded, a female police officer, died later of injuries from the explosion.
- Sydney Hilton bombing - Two garbage men were killed and 12 passers-by were injured by a bomb planted in a garbage bin outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel in 1978. A police officer who was wounded died later.
- 2014 Sydney hostage crisis - Two hostages and hostage-taker Man Haron Monis were killed, during a 16-hour siege inside a Lindt cafe in Martin Place, Sydney, with six other people injured.
See also
- List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
- Timeline of major crimes in Australia
- Crime in Australia
References
- ↑ Manning Clark, A History of Australia. Vol IV, p 353
- ↑ "Father charged after 10 killed". The Age. 7 September 1971.
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19800624&id=Af5jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3eYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6998,7950269
- ↑ "Thrown out of house three days before family was killed Daoud got gun licence from Campsie police". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 October 1981.
- ↑ "Man killed his family to spare them 'disgrace'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 June 1984.
- ↑ Dillon, Meagan (31 January 2013). "Killer's Release Possible". ntnews.
- ↑ "Recent random mass shootings in Australia". Sydney Morning Herald. 21 October 2002. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
- ↑ Young, Lisa "Victory for Brisbane women's services" greenleft.org.au
- ↑ "Adelaide gunman arrested after siege". SBS World News. 29 April 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
- ↑ "Wedderburn man Ian Francis Jamieson charged over triple murder". The Age. 2014-10-24. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
- ↑ "Australia Cairns: Mother charged with eight murders". BBC News. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
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