| Site Name | Collins Creek This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
| Aboriginal Place Name | Unclear |
| Language Group | Ngarinman, Bilinara |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
| Police District | Victoria River |
| Latitude | -16.528 |
| Longitude | 129.219 |
| Date | Between 15 Jul 1893 and 30 Sep 1893 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 53 |
| Victims Killed Notes | men |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Mounted Police, Pastoralist(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Mounted Constable Collins |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | Following the spearing death of Police Trooper Joe Collins at the Behn River in July 1893, in which at least 23 Aboriginal people were killed, Lewis (2021, p 528) wrote: 'There was another slaughter of Aborigines on or near Waterloo after the spearing of Constable Collins in 1893...Not satisfied with the killing of 23, a large party of police and bushmen went out again to arrest or disperse other Aborigines in the region. Over the next two months they travelled 678 miles and shot another 30 men.' |
| Sources | Lewis, 2021, p 528. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
