Month: December 2018

The National Trust have focused on Ned Kelly for this year’s summer school holiday program (22 December 2018 to 29 January 2019), and I went along on opening day to have a look. It was a rare opportunity to check out the Law Courts building’s main court, which is not normally open, but is open […]

My year in the Kelly scene started dramatically enough in January 2018, with a threat of blackmail by a notorious right-wing troll who declared that he would ruin my career and try to get me deported if I didn’t remove everything I have ever written on the Internet about Ned Kelly and promise never to […]

In part One of this discussion I discussed the claim made by Ned Kelly that he became a criminal because of the treatment that he and his family received at the hands of police. The problem with that claim is that when it was examined by the Royal Commission in 1881 they found no evidence […]

I was asked that question the other day, and after giving it some thought decided to make my answer into a post about Ned Kelly and the origins of his criminality. I am going to spell out my solution to the dilemma that the mythology of Ned Kelly creates, and explain why I believe the […]

Some of the pro-Kelly Facebook pages have posted a link to an online article about Harry Power. I am not sure why this article appeared – the claim it’s the anniversary of his death is not correct because according to Corfield he died on 11thOctober 1891. But whatever the reason for the article, Harry Powers […]