Coniston (Paperback)

'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.

General

Imprint:	UWA Publishing
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	November 2019
Authors:	Michael Bradley
Dimensions:	228 x 159mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	282
ISBN-13:	978-1-76080-103-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-76080-103-8
Barcode:	9781760801038

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!