Coniston by Michael Bradley

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant prospector at this isolated station by local Warlpiri triggered a series of police-led expeditions that ranged over vast areas for two months as the hunting parties shot down victims by the dozen.

The official death toll, declared by the whitewash federal inquiry as being all in self-defence, was 31. The real number was certainly multiples of that.

Coniston has never been fully researched and recorded; with this book, that absence in Australia’s history is now filled. As the last great mass killing in our country’s genocidal past but an event largely unremembered, it reminds us that, without truth, there can be no reconciliation. (back cover)