Author: David

    In Part One I presented an overview of our current knowledge of the early years of Ned Kellys life.   The important message from Part one was that Red Kellys family was known as a poor but law abiding family, and they were not troubled in any way by police from the time […]

One good thing that Justin Kurzel’s crazy fantasy movie about the Kelly Gang might have done is make people ask what the genuinely true story really is. And it’s a good question because there are so many versions of the story out there, all claiming to be definitive, so anyone could be forgiven for being […]

I finally decided I should see this movie for myself, though as most will know I had already expressed a view, based on what most others in Kelly world circles have said about it, that I might not. Aidan Phelan on A Guide to Australian Bushrangers had excoriated the movie in quite a relentless way, […]

Having read Carey’s novel some years ago I was not expecting any historical accuracy in this film, and this review is not suggesting that there should have been any. Carey’s “True History” is wildly inaccurate in its representation of practically every aspect of the Kelly story, and I personally found the novel a tedious slog after the first 100 […]

The Kennedy Tree Groups claim is that they have identified the site of the police murders at Stringybark Creek by finding trees in 2019 that can be seen at the site in the two published photographs of it taken in 1878. Their spokesperson Mr Jim Fogarty has stated repeatedly on their Facebook page that “If you […]

This time last week I was preparing to watch the Live Stream of the Kennedy Tree Group presenting their findings at Greta….but they had signal problems and it didn’t happen. Eventually they expect to post a Video recording of the event …so we wait with anticipation.   So lets just review where we have got […]

The KTG case is that things that can be seen in the Burman photos from 1878 can be seen at Stringybark  Creek in 2019. But when it comes to the tree they’ve called the Starburst tree, or PC4, they are seeing things in the photos that nobody else can see. Thats why in the two images […]

Yesterday the Kennedy Tree Group ( the KTG ) put all their cards on the table and  revealed exactly why they believe they have identified the place where the Stringybark Creek police campsite was in 1878. They have found four trees in 2019 that in their opinion look like four trees seen in photos of […]

It would appear that the Kennedy Tree Group ( KTG )  won’t be making their Report available until they have presented its findings at a Public meeting, which they say will be ‘live streamed’ on Saturday December 14th, in Greta. They are going to describe finding a tree they believe is the same one that […]

This post is about the claim Adam Ford made on the History Channels Lawless documentary in 2018 that he had located ‘for the first time ever’ the actual site at Stringybark Creek where three police were murdered by the Kelly Gang in 1878.   Last week, in the first part of this two part essay, I […]