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12.10.18

Coniston Massacre anniversary sparks push to create day of remembrance and formal apology - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): The massacres began in August 1928 after a dingo trapper, Fred Brookes, was killed by a local Indigenous man.

Police Constable George Murray led a party and personally admitted to killing at least 17 people.

NT Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw will attend the commemoration, and some descendants of those who were killed are hoping he will offer a formal apology.


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