| Site Name | Coniston and surrounds 1 |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Warlpiri, Anmatyere, Kaytetye |
| Colony | NT |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Police District | Barrow Creek |
| Latitude | -22.084 |
| Longitude | 132.506 |
| Date | Between 1 Aug 1928 and 31 Oct 1928 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 50 |
| Victims Killed Notes | More than 50 |
| Attackers | Colonisers |
| Attackers Killed | 1 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Dingo trapper, Fred Brooks, who was killed on 7 August, 1928. |
| Transport | |
| Motive | |
| Weapons Used | spears, firearms |
| Narrative | Following the killing of Fred Brooks (committed by a man named Nugget or Bullfrog for stealing Nugget's/Bullfrog's wife) by Warlpiri at Yurrguru on Coniston, a number (more than 50) of Aboriginal people (Warlpiri and Yanmatjiri) were killed in punitive expeditions 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; Alice Springs News Online August 15 2018 https://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/08/15/the-coniston-massacre-remembered; NT News, 25 Aug 2018: 24-25https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/nt-police-apologise-for-state-sanctioned-coniston-massacre/10162850; Wilson and O'Brien 2003. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
