What the records say
- When
- 16 Dec 1929
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 1
- Coordinates
- 32.68° S, 151.35° E
- Description
- 1929 Australian civil disorder
Rothbury riot
1929 Australian civil disorder
On 16 December 1929 New South Wales Police drew their revolvers and shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales town of Rothbury in Australia, killing a 29-year-old miner, Norman Brown, and injuring approximately forty-five miners. The incident became known as the Rothbury affair or the Rothbury riot, and is described as the "bloodiest event in national industrial history."
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