I do not want to minimise the seriousness of the Bondi massacre, but it gains no extra horror from calling it Australia’s worst ever terror event. It wasn’t. Indeed I doubt it was in the worst five. 98 years ago, for example, a massacre perpetrated by the NT Police, at Coniston may have resulted in the murders of up to 100 people. There were others, of Aborigines, around Waterloo creek, possibly at Myall Creek and at other well known massacre sites, even where official accounts are vague about the numbers killed or wounded. While Myall Creek saw some perpetrators hanged, there was never one of the massacres where soldiers or cops were on the side of the victims.