
Frontier Wars
Northern Territory
Coniston (2019)
Bradley, Michael
Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant prospector triggered a series of police-led expeditions that ranged over vast areas for two months, with the ‘hunting parties’ shooting down Warlpiri victims by the dozen. The official death toll, declared by the whitewash federal inquiry as being all in self-defence, was thirty-one. The real number was certainly many times that.