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'Known as "the last massacre", Coniston saw the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people across traditional lands of Central Australia from August 1928. The motive was to avenge the killing of dingo trapper Fred Brooks at the hands of a Warlpiri man, Bullfrog, who found Brooks taking liberties with his wife. But as the Walpiri people and their neighbours tell the story in Coniston, it's also the tragic tale of Australian contact history: dispossession by pastoralists and the struggle over resources in a drought-afflicted land. Using their acclaimed hybrid docu-drama approach to film-making, directors David Batty and Francis Jupurrurla Kelly (Bush Mechanics) allow Indigenous people to speak with authority about their own recent history and the deep shadow it cast over their country. ' (Source: TROVE)
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In English and Warlpiri languages
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Remembering a Saltwater Man Called Bennelong
2013
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 January 2013; (p. 6) -
Coniston : Now a New Film...
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Land Rights News , August 2012 vol. 2 no. 2 2012; (p. 27)
— Review of Coniston 2013 single work film/TV 'More than 80 years after the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people in Central Australia, the families of those who were there have told their story in a new film, Coniston...' -
The Meaning of a Massacre
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 9 no. 3 2012;
— Review of Coniston 2013 single work film/TV
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The Meaning of a Massacre
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 9 no. 3 2012;
— Review of Coniston 2013 single work film/TV -
Coniston : Now a New Film...
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Land Rights News , August 2012 vol. 2 no. 2 2012; (p. 27)
— Review of Coniston 2013 single work film/TV 'More than 80 years after the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people in Central Australia, the families of those who were there have told their story in a new film, Coniston...' -
Remembering a Saltwater Man Called Bennelong
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 January 2013; (p. 6)