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.
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