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Rampage killing by John Brandon, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself. [22] Milperra massacre: 2 September 1984 Milperra, New South Wales: 7: 28: Shootout between two rival motorcycle gangs. One bystander was among those killed in the incident. Pymble shooting 23 January 1987 Pymble, New South Wales 4 0
A man shot into a crowd at a picnic, killing one person and wounding three others. [74] 23 January 1924: Melbourne, Victoria: 4 1 5: A man opened fire at a botanical garden with a rifle, killing four and wounding one. He later killed himself at another location. [75] 22 March 1921: Riverton, South Australia: 2 3 5
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland.
In 2023 a Melbourne GP pursued legal action in the Federal Court to clarify the definition of suicide in the federal criminal code and its applicability to state-based assisted dying legislation. In November 2023 the court ruled that the law made it illegal for telehealth consultations concerning assisted dying to be conducted.
Peter James Knight (born 1 January 1954) is an Australian criminal who murdered a security guard in a Melbourne abortion clinic. Following his arrest and criminal trial, Knight is serving a life sentence with a minimum non-parole period of 23 years. As of 2022, the incident remains the only killing by an anti-abortion activist in Australia. [1]
Darwin is a large city by the standards of Australia's sparsely populated tropical north with a population of 150,000. But multiple casualty events can test its major hospital's resources.
Moran was born in Victoria on 18 December 1944. [2] In 1963, she married Leslie John "Johnny" Cole, [2] who was shot dead in Sydney drug-related gangland conflict in 1982. [3] [4] Cole was the father of their son Mark Cole, born in 1964 (later Mark Moran).
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