| Site Name | Coniston and surrounds 1 |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Warlpiri, Anmatyere, Kaytetye |
| Colony | NT |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Police District | |
| Coordinates (imprecise to approx. 250m) | -22.084,132.506,0 |
| Date | Between 1 Aug 1928 and 31 Oct 1928 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Aboriginal People Killed | 50 |
| Aboriginal People Killed Notes | More than 50 |
| Non-Aboriginal People Killed | 1 |
| Non-Aboriginal People Killed Notes | Dingo trapper, Fred Brooks, who was killed on 7 August, 1928. |
| Attacker Category | Police punitive expedition. |
| Attacker Details | |
| Motive | Brooks murdered by a man named Nugget or Bullfrog for stealing Nugget's wife. Warlpiri people killed in response in punitive expeditions. |
| Type Of Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Spears & firearms |
| Notes | Men, women and children. |
| Narrative | Following the killing of Fred Brooks by Warlpiri at Yurrguru on Coniston, a number (more than 50) of Aboriginal people (Warlpiri and Yanmatjiri) were killed by a police party comprising Mounted Constable George Murray, Alex Wilson, Stafford, John Saxby, Billy Briscoe, Dodger and trackers Paddy and Major, in the next few weeks around the Lander River and to the west of Coniston Station. The official death toll for the Coniston Massacre was 17. |
| Sources | Woodward 1978; Read and Read 1991: 33-7; Bell 1993: 67-68; Toohey 1978; Edmond 2013: 104; Morrison www.australianfrontierconflicts.com.au; NT News, 25 Aug 2018: 24-25;Wilson and O'Brien 2003. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
