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Coniston massacre
From the 14/8/1928-18/10/1928 The Coniston massacre, which took place near the Coniston cattle station in the then Territory of Central Australia (now the Northern Territory) from 14 August to 18 October 1928, was the last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian Frontier Wars. -
Boulder & Kalgoorlie bombings
Mine worker Pero Raecivich killed 14 people and wounded 15 others when he bombed a boarding house and a pub in Boulder, 600 kilometres east of Perth, on February 1, 1942. -
Whiskey Au Go Go fire
The Whisky Au Go Go in Fortitude Valley went up in flames after two drums of diesel fuel were set alight in the building foyer. Police quickly arrested two men, James Finch and John Stuart, who were subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison. They killed 15 people -
Top End Shootings
From the 9/5/1987-14/5/1987. Joseph "Josef" Schwab was a German tourist and spree killer who murdered five people in the Top End region of the Northern Territory and Western Australia in June 1987. Schwab was dubbed The Kimberley Killer by the Australian press after the region in which he committed the murders. -
Strathfield massacre
The Strathfield massacre was a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia, on 17 August 1991. The shooter was Wade Frankum, who killed himself as police arrived at the scene. The incident left 8 dead and 6 wounded. -
Rodney William Asnell
Rodney William Ansell was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from the bush, Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and the story of his survival for 56 days with limited supplies became news headlines around the world. Consequently, he served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan's character in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee. In 1999, he was killed in a police shoot out.
