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English
University of Western Aus
01 November 2019
'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.

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Imprint:   University of Western Aus
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 159mm, 
ISBN:   9781760801038
ISBN 10:   1760801038
Pages:   282
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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