Month: March 2019

A short trailer for the short film Stringybark Creek has just been released, but it will be some time before the film itself is made available to the general public.  What little is shown in the trailer looks pretty dramatic, but it gives nothing away – its a teaser, as trailers always are.   The […]

“Despite various trumped up charges and some very dubious convictions against the Kelly family, Superintendent Nicolson’s memo to his police officers within the North-East confirms the police were instructed to harass and intimidate the family in an effort to remove them from the district.” So begins a post that appeared a couple of weeks ago […]

I saw a discussion on Facebook a couple of years ago in response to someone asking who among all the world’s great people would readers most like to have dinner with. Someone nominated Captain James Cook, another said Winston Churchill, and inevitably I suppose, someone said that he would most like to have dinner with […]

Last week I talked about how movie makers Matthew Holmes and Aidan Phelan have chosen to ignore what Ned Kelly actually said were his reasons for planning to kill police and take hostages at Glenrowan, and instead propose that his real motive was something ‘much bigger’. This got me thinking about the way in which […]

Last Saturday there was a seminar in Greta that focussed on the Kelly armour. There was discussion about the controversy surrounding where it was made: in a bush forge by amateurs ? – like the Kelly gang itself, who would have been able to heat it to a dull red glow but not more than […]