This article is a list of mass shootings in Australia. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties. Excluded are shootings associated with acts of war, such as the 1944 Cowra breakout, which saw over 200 soldiers killed. Also excluded are massacres of Aboriginal people using firearms, most of which are not well-documented.
The data include casualties of perpetrators, including self-inflicted gunshot or shooting of a perpetrator by police. That treatment of perpetrator casualties is at variance to some but not all definitions of a mass shooting used in the United States. The inclusion of injured victims in the data is also at variance with some of the US definitions that only include dead victims. However, the above treatment is consistent with that used in other Wikipedia lists of mass shootings by country.
2025 Bondi Beach shooting: Two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, killing 15 people and wounding 42 more.[1] One of the perpetrators was killed in a shootout with police, while the other was injured and arrested.[2][3]
A man opened fire from a restaurant rooftop onto Georges River Road at passing vehicles, including police vehicles, injuring 17 people, before being arrested.[4][5] Paramedics treated 16 people at the scene for minor injuries, one man underwent surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for gunshot wounds to his chest and neck and the alleged gunman was taken to Bankstown Hospital for minor injuries.[4]
Wieambilla police shootings: A Police Wellness check gone wrong, left six people dead including three perpetrators (two men and one woman). Another two people were wounded in the shootings.[6]
2017 Brighton siege: A man shot and killed one person and then held a hostage. In a subsequent shoot-out with a police tactical unit, the perpetrator was killed and three police officers were wounded.[11]
A man shot and killed two of his roommates before shooting his landlord to death at another location. The gunman was shot by police during a car chase and arrested.[36]
Strathfield massacre: A man armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot and killed seven people and wounded six others at a shopping mall, before committing suicide.[38]
Queen Street massacre: A man armed with a rifle shot and killed eight people and wounded five others. He committed suicide by leaping from an 11th-floor window.[47]
Canley Vale shootings: A man shot five people to death before killing himself. The victims were a woman who had rejected the perpetrator and gotten engaged to another man, her mother, father, brother and sister. Another brother was injured.[48]
1976 Spring Hill shooting: A man shot two dead and wounded four others on Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane in a random shooting. He was captured by heavily armed police later at a house where he was holding 5 people hostage.[58]
An Italian man armed with a shotgun shot and wounded four people including a police constable. He was arrested after accidentally shooting himself.[64]
A man shot and killed six people and wounded another one before committing suicide. The perpetrator first battered his wife and daughter to death and set them on fire, before taking his gun to a house across the street to kill a friend's wife, two children and family friend.[65]
Two people were killed and four others wounded at a house known for underworld crime. Nine people were arrested.[71] A third victim died on 9 September.[72]
A man shot and wounded three people with a pistol at a dance hall before killing himself. One of the wounded girls had previously rejected the perpetrator's romantic gestures, which had led to the perpetrator making threats to shoot her.[74]
After four convicts escaped Yatala Labour Prison, they were pursued by police in a running gunfight and eventually crashed opposite the Nailsworth School. Shots were fired between the prisoners and police in the schoolyard. In total, two perpetrators were killed and two officers and two civilians were wounded.[76][77]
A man entered a home and started firing, killing two women and wounding two other people before attempting suicide.[79] The perpetrator and a victim later died of their wounds.[80]
A man killed his two children and father-in-law, attempted to kill his wife and wounded one other person with a revolver before walking outside and being arrested.[83]
A man armed with a revolver shot and wounded five people at Riverton railway station.[88] Two of the victims, including MPPercy Brookfield, died of their wounds.[89]
A Chinese man armed with two revolvers and smoke bombs opened fire at random as he roamed the streets, fatally shooting one person and wounding sixteen people. He was killed by an armed citizen.[90][91]
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