List of massacres in Australia - Wikipedia List of massacres in Australia This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. The following is a list of massacres and mass murders that have occurred in Australia and its predecessors ( numbers may be approximate ). Contents 1 Massacres 2 Murders over an extended period of time 3 Miscellaneous 4 See also 5 References Massacres Name Date Location Deaths Injuries Notes Shipwreck of the Batavia 1628 Houtman Abrolhos ( Western Australia ) 0110 ! 110 Many Dutch shipwreck survivors are murdered by a break - away group of survivors Cape Grim massacre 10 February 1828 Cape Grim, Van Diemen 's Land ( Tasmania ) 0030 ! 30 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians by four shepherds Convincing Ground massacre 1833 -- 34 Portland, Victoria 0200 ! 60 -- 200 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians after a heated dispute between whalers and Aboriginal tribes Pinjarra massacre 28 October 1834 Pinjarra, Western Australia 0040 ! 14 -- 40 Massacre by British colonists led by Governor Stirling against the Pinjarup people Waterloo Creek massacre / Slaughterhouse Creek massacre January 1838 Waterloo Creek, NSW 0041 ! 40 -- 70 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians as part of a clash between mounted police and Indigenous Australians Myall Creek massacre 10 June 1838 Myall Creek, NSW 0030 ! 27 - 30 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians. The attack was racially motivated, and subsequently the colonists who carried out the attack were hanged Murdering Gully massacre 1839 Mount Emu Creek, near Camperdown, Victoria 0040 ! 35 -- 40 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians undertaken by Frederick Taylor apparently in retaliation to Aborigines having killed the colonists ' sheep Campaspe Plains massacre June 1839 Campaspe Creek, Central Victoria 0040 ! up to 40 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians led by commander Charles Hutton as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of their lands Shipwreck survivors of the Maria massacred 1840 Coorong, SA 0025 ! 25 13 people survived Ship travelling from Port Adelaide to Hobart was shipwrecked on the SE coast of South Australia, with all surviving the wreck. The survivors were being guided to safety by the local Narrindjeri people, but were massacred when they breached local law. Gippsland massacres 1840 - 1850 Gippsland, VIC 0450 ! 300 - 1000 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians, combined with the introduction of diseases by the British Colonists which also contributed to the heavy losses of the Aborigines. The technical superiority of the Europeans ' weapons gave the Europeans an absolute advantage over the Aborigines and, as a result, very few white settlers died during the course of the massacres. Cullin - La - Ringo massacre 17 October 1861 Central Queensland 0019 ! 19 0000 ! 0 Massacre of white settlers by Indigenous Australians Flying Foam massacre February -- May 1868 Flying Foam Passage, WA 0150 ! 20 -- 150 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians after a series of confrontations between white settlers and Aboriginal people near the Flying Foam Passage Palmer massacre August 1878 Palmer River, Queensland 0150 ! 20 -- 150 Unknown Massacre by Cantonese and Pekinese against each other. Ching family murders 16 November 1911 Alligator Creek, Mackay, Queensland 0006 ! 6 0000 ! 0 George David Silva murdered six members of the Ching family by shooting and bashing. Silva was hanged at Boggo Road Gaol in Brisbane on 10 June 1912. Battle of Broken Hill 1 January 1915 Broken Hill, New South Wales 0004 ! 4 0007 ! 7 Spree shooting by two Ghans gunmen - Terror attack - by modern definition Mowla Bluff massacre 1916 Kimberley, Western Australia 0400 ! Up to 12 0000 ! 0 Massacre of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal Men, women and children were rounded up and subsequently shot and their bodies burned Forrest River massacre May -- July 1926 Kimberley Region of Western Australia 0011 ! 11 Unknown Massacre of Indigenous Australians by law enforcement. Coniston massacre 14 August -- 18 October 1928 Coniston, Northern Territory 0170 ! 60 -- 170 Unknown Probably the last known massacre of Indigenous Australians Hope Forest massacre 6 September 1971 Hope Forest, SA 0010 ! 10 0000 ! 0 Rampage killing by Clifford Bartholomew, who shot dead ten members of his family Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire 8 March 1973 Fortitude Valley, Queensland 0015 ! 15 Unknown Arson attack that killed 15 people and injured many more at a nightclub Campsie murders 24 September 1981 Campsie, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 0000 ! 0 Rampage killing by Fouad Daoud, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself Wahroonga murders 1 June 1984 Wahroonga, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 0000 ! 0 Rampage killing by John Brandon, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself. Milperra massacre 2 September 1984 Milperra, New South Wales 0007 ! 7 0028 ! 28 Shootout between two rival motorcycle gangs. 1 bystander was among those killed in the incident Top End Shootings June 1987 Top End, Northern Territory 0005 ! 5 Spree killing by Joseph Schwab over a five - day period. Shot dead by police Hoddle Street massacre 9 August 1987 Clifton Hill, Victoria 0007 ! 7 A Spree shooting by Julian Knight Canley Vale Huynh family murders 10 October 1987 Canley Vale, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 Rampage killing by John Tran, who shot dead 5 members of a family Queen Street massacre 8 December 1987 Melbourne, Victoria 0008 ! 8 A spree shooting / murder -- suicide by Frank Vitkovic Oenpelli shootings 25 September 1988 Oenpelli, Northern Territory 0006 ! 6 0000 ! 0 Rampage killing by Dennis Rostron, six members of his family at a remote Arnhem Land outstation in Oenpelli Surry Hills shootings 30 August 1990 Surry Hills, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 0007 ! 7 A spree shooting by Paul Anthony Evers who killed 5 people and injured 7 with a 12 gauge pump - action shotgun at a public housing precinct in Surry Hills before surrendering to police. Strathfield massacre 17 August 1991 Strathfield, New South Wales 0007 ! 7 A spree shooting / murder -- suicide by Wade Frankum Central Coast massacre 27 October 1992 Terrigal, New South Wales 0006 ! 6 A spree shooting by Malcolm George Baker 1993 Cangai siege March 1993 Cangai, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 0000 ! 0 Leonard Leabeater, Robert Steele and Raymond Bassett went on a nine - day rampage resulting in their taking hostages in a siege in a farmhouse at Hanging Rock Station in Cangai Hillcrest murders 25 January 1996 Hillcrest, Queensland 0006 ! 6 0000 ! 0 Rampage killing by Peter May, who shot dead six members of his family before killing himself Port Arthur massacre 28 April 1996 Port Arthur, Tasmania 0035 ! 35 0024 ! 24 A spree shooting by Martin Bryant Murder Suicide 28 June 1997 Richmond, Tasmania 005 ! 5 Peter Shoobridge cut the throat of his 4 daughters whilst they slept then took his own life with a rifle after cutting off one of his hands with an axe. Wright St Bikie Murders 8 October 1999 Adelaide, Australia 0003 ! 3 000 ! 0 Hell 's Angels feud Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire 23 June 2000 Childers, Queensland 0015 ! 15 unknown Arson attack by Robert Paul Long, which killed 15 international backpackers Monash University shooting 21 October 2002 Melbourne, Victoria 002 ! 2 005 ! 5 Mass shooting attack by Huan Yun `` Allen '' Xiang Churchill Fire 7 February 2009 Churchill, Victoria 0010 ! 10 unknown Arson attack by Brendan Sokaluk that killed 10 people, during the Black Saturday bushfires period Lin family murders 18 July 2009 North Epping, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 unknown Blunt instrument attack that killed 5 members of the Lin family Quakers Hill nursing home fire 18 November 2011 Sydney, NSW 0011 ! 11 Arson attack by Roger Kingsley Dean, a nurse, which killed 11 people Rozelle fire murders 4 September 2014 Rozelle, New South Wales 0003 ! 3 0002 ! 2 Arson attack by Adeel Khan which killed 3 and injured another 2. Hunt family murders 9 September 2014 Lockhart, New South Wales 0005 ! 5 0000 ! 0 A Mass shooting and Familicide by Geoff Hunt who killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself Sydney Siege 15 - 16 December 2014 Sydney, NSW 0008 ! 3 0001 ! 4 Siege. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. The NSW Police Tactical Operations Unit shot Monis dead, after he executed a hostage. In the exchange five others were hit by Police bullet fragments, causing accidental death to one of them. Cairns child killings 19 December 2014 Cairns, Queensland 0008 ! 8 0001 ! 1 ( self - inflicted by perpetrator ) Stabbing attack. 8 children aged 18 months to 15 years killed. Thirty - seven - year - old woman also found injured. The woman, Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, was later charged with the murder of the children, 7 of whom were hers, plus her niece. 2017 Melbourne car attack 20 January 2017 Melbourne, Victoria 0006 ! 6 0030 ! 30 Vehicular attack. Dimitrious Gargasoulas drove a Holden Commodore into Bourke St Mall, resulting in the deaths of 6 people and injuring 30 + others. Murders over an extended period of time Main article : List of serial killers by country § Australia Eric Edgar Cooke murdered 8 people between 1959 and 1963. Backpacker murders -- Ivan Milat killed seven international backpackers in the early 1990s, and is widely suspected of killing 30 more young adults. Melbourne gangland killings -- 36 underworld figures murdered so far in gang related violence between 1998 and 2010. Snowtown murders -- 12 murders committed from 1992 until 1999. John Wayne Glover -- murders of six elderly women on Sydney 's North Shore over a fourteen - month period in 1989 -- 90. Truro murders -- murders of seven women from 1976 until 1977. William Fraser - murders of at least 100 men, women and children between 1857 - 1867 Miscellaneous Douglas Crabbe -- Truck driver deliberately crashed his truck into a hotel, killing five and badly wounding 16. Russell Street Bombing -- 23 wounded when a car bomb ignites outside a Police Building. One of the wounded, a female police officer, died later of injuries from the explosion. Sydney Hilton bombing -- Two garbage men were killed and 12 passers - by were injured by a bomb planted in a garbage bin outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel in 1978. A police officer who was wounded died later. 2014 Sydney hostage crisis -- Two hostages and hostage - taker Man Haron Monis were killed, during a 16 - hour siege inside a Lindt cafe in Martin Place, Sydney, with six other people injured. See also List of massacres of Indigenous Australians Timeline of major crimes in Australia Crime in Australia References Jump up ^ Manning Clark, A History of Australia. Vol IV, p 353 Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Broken_Hill Jump up ^ Stephens, Tony ( 20 May 2002 ). `` Closing the circle on a bloody chapter '', The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 May 2017. Jump up ^ `` Father charged after 10 killed ''. The Age. 7 September 1971. Jump up ^ `` Thrown out of house three days before family was killed Daoud got gun licence from Campsie police ''. The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 October 1981. Jump up ^ `` Man killed his family to spare them ' disgrace ' ''. The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 June 1984. Jump up ^ Dillon, Meagan ( 31 January 2013 ). `` Killer 's Release Possible ''. ntnews. Jump up ^ `` Recent random mass shootings in Australia ''. Sydney Morning Herald. 21 October 2002. Retrieved 17 September 2010. Jump up ^ Young, Lisa `` Victory for Brisbane women 's services '' greenleft.org.au Jump up ^ http://www.news.com.au/national/crime/poet-antique-dealer-mass-murderer-peter-shoobridge-cut-the-throats-of-his-four-daughters/news-story/c067ad94747a6ba1282fe8374be0b5a2 Jump up ^ http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaide-bikie-violence-four-unsolved-highprofile-murder-cases/news-story/e73eabd2b168c18beb99f73b8a97fc06 Jump up ^ `` Convenience store owner Adeel Khan jailed for Rozelle fire deaths ''. news. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 08. Jump up ^ `` Australia Cairns : Mother charged with eight murders ''. BBC News. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014. 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Question: when was the last time there was a mass shooting in australia
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