Timeline of Australian Atrocrities

A timeline of atrocities committed by or supported by the Australian government, Australian corporations or the British Empire during its colonisation of Australia.

1800s

• 1854: British soldiers repress the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat
• 1899: Australia joins the Second Boer War, costing 606 Australian lives and perpetuating British Imperialism

1900s

• 1906: An unknown amount of aboriginal people are enslaved, tortured, raped and murdered by 'explorers' in Western Australia on the Canning Stock Route
• 1915: Police kill 7 aboriginal people in the Mistake Creek Massacre
• 1918: The Australian government allows for the Bentinck Island Atrocities against aboriginals by ignoring the perpetrator and never punishing him
• 1922: Police shoot more than 12 aboriginals in the Sturt Creek Massacre
• 1924: Police brutally torture, enslave and kill aboriginal men in the Bedford Downs Massacre
• 1926: Police kill and burn 20 aboriginals in Western Australia in the Oombulgurri Massacre
• 1928: Between 60 and 110 aboriginals are killed by police and armed vigilantes around the Coniston Cattle Station in the Northern Territory in the Coniston Massacre
• 1978: An unknown agent bombs a hotel in Sydney, killing 3 people and injuring 11, most evidence points to it being the Australian government seeking to expand its police powers
• 1998: Corporate neglect kills two workers in the Esso Longford Gas Explosion
• 1998: Corporate neglect kills four sailors in a fire on the HMAS Westralia

2000s

• 2006: Corporate neglect triggers the Beaconsfield Mine Collapse and traps three people, killing one
• 2006: Corporate neglect triggers the Gladstone Munitions Factory Explosion, killing three people
• 2013: Corporate neglect triggers the collapse of a wall on Swanston St, Melbourne and killed three people