| Site Name | Wombunderry Waterhole, Cooper Creek |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Kungkari |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | Bedourie |
| Latitude | -25.668 |
| Longitude | 140.768 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1872 and 31 Dec 1872 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 100 |
| Victims Killed Notes | M.W.C |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Carbine(s) |
| Narrative | According to historian Timothy Bottoms (2013, pp 65-66), some time in 1872 stockman Maloney, aged 18, who was one of two stockmen on Alex Reid's station at Wombinderry, was killed by Birria people for shooting one of their dogs and fishing in one of the tributaries of Cooper's Creek without their permission. When sub-inspector Gilmour and a detachment of native police arrived at the station and found Maloney's body in the creek, they shot an entire camp of Kungkari at Wombonderry waterhole. |
| Sources | Bottoms, 2013, pp 66-67; Durack, 2008, p 139. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
