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The Cross of Valour was established in 1975 as the highest Australian Bravery Award. The awards were established as part of the institution of the Australian Honours System . The Cross of Valour has been awarded to five Australian civilians and, although there has been no Australian military recipient, they would be eligible in situations where ...
A shooting incident at a residence left four men wounded. [10] 29 April 2011: Hectorville, South Australia: 3 3 6: 2011 Hectorville siege: A shooting incident and the following stand-off with the police left three people killed and three others wounded. [11] 10 April 2010: Roxburgh Park, Victoria: 4 [n 1] 0 4: A man shot and killed his three ...
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.
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 civilian Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla , a locality in Queensland .
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The deadliest mass shooting in Australia. Led to the National Firearms Agreement between Australia's states, territories and federal government, mandating licenses and registration for gun owners and users, and banning semi-automatic long guns in most cases. See Gun laws in Australia. Shoobridge family murders 28 June 1997
The 2011 Hectorville siege took place between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on Friday, 29 April 2011, at the small suburb of Hectorville, east of Adelaide in the state of South Australia, Australia. It began after a 39-year-old resident of the suburb, later identified as Donato Anthony Corbo, entered his neighbours' property and shot ...
Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) is an Australian mass murderer [1] who shot and killed thirty-five people and injured twenty-three others in the Port Arthur massacre on 28 and 29 April 1996. [2] He is currently serving thirty-five life sentences, and 135 years without the possibility of parole, at Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania.