On this day in 1928, Constable George William Murray led a punitive raid against Aboriginal people in Central Australia in response to the murder of dingo trapper Fred Brooks. Five Aboriginal people were shot dead in the attack — and what followed was a series of mass killings that'd last two months and claim 31 lives, though modern historians put the toll at around 170. In this episode, I talk to historian Dr Robyn Smith, who has worked to map this and other mass killings of Aboriginal people in the NT for the University of Newcastle’s Massacre Map project.

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