Month: March 2017

This is the memorial erected at Mansfield in honour of the police slain in the Wombat Ranges Stuart Dawson is doing some interesting research into the Kelly story.  He showed by detailed critical analysis of the major element of the Kelly legend known as the  “Fitzpatrick Incident” that it was a myth.Dawson showed that Fitzpatrick, […]

Prince of Wales Mine The Blog passed 200,000 views on Friday!  It took two years to attract the first 100,000 views, but only ten months to get the second 100,000 a very pleasing growth in readership. Since May last year while we endured the Kelly Vaults long drawn out promotion of the Unforgotten Photo, and […]

  What people believe about what happened at Stringybark Creek can be predicted by what they think of Ned Kelly. If they think he was a wrongly accused and persecuted selector they think killing three Policemen at SBC was self defence and they got what they deserved. Everyone else thinks differently. But when it comes […]

Just so that everyone understands why I keep calling the CSI Report Pseudoscience, I will illustrate the weakness of their argument where it relates to this Photograph, one of the two famous photographs of the actual place where Lonigan and Scanlan were killed, at the site of the Police encampment at Stringybark Creek. This extraordinary […]

The news article that Sharon drew to our attention the other day, about a plan to ‘upgrade’  the Police Killing Ground at Stringybark Creek, says that ‘the Police and other stakeholders’ were consulted, and as a result a plan for a new walkway and new ‘signage’ was developed for activation later this year. ‘‘The project includes the construction […]

Ellen Kellys life was different from the thousands of other Irish immigrant women who settled in Victoria in the 19thcentury because of one thing : she gave birth to Ned Kelly, an Australian with a combination of social and character traits that resulted in him becoming a notorious outlaw. If it hadn’t been for Ned […]