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[31] [32] This was Australia's worst familicide on record as of May 2018. [33] Initially sentenced to hang, he was instead imprisoned for life, and released on parole in 1979. After his release from prison, Bartholomew assumed a new identity, remarried and had seven adopted children. His new family only learnt about his past years after his ...
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. [3] The attack led to fundamental changes in Australia's gun laws.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
Hope Forest, South Australia: 10: 0: Rampage killing by Clifford Bartholomew, who shot dead ten members of his family. [17] It is the deadliest familicide in Australian history. Whiskey Au Go Go fire: 8 March 1973 Fortitude Valley, Queensland: 15: unknown Arson attack that killed fifteen and injured many more at a nightclub. Savoy Hotel fire: 5 ...
Crimes That Shook Australia is an Australian true crime documentary television series that premiered on Crime + Investigation on 16 April 2014. [1] Stan Grant presented the first two series; Matt Doran was announced as the new presenter in February 2017.
The Greenough family massacre was the axe murders of Karen MacKenzie (31) and her three children, Daniel (16), Amara (7), and Katrina (5), at their remote rural property in Greenough, Western Australia, on 21 February 1993. [1] They were killed by farm hand William Patrick Mitchell, an acquaintance of MacKenzie.
A life sentence in Western Australia, for a crime other than murder, attracts a minimum non-parole period of seven years, while the equivalent term in Queensland is 15 years. For murder, the minimum non-parole period on a life sentence in the Australian Capital Territory is 10 years, as it is in Western Australia (except when committed during ...
The report argued that the Commonwealth Government was guilty of the crime of genocide; under the UN Convention defining genocide as "intentional destruction of a racial, religious, national, or ethnic group". [86] Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87]