Author: David

“Ned Kelly: Australian Son” can be purchased from the worlds greatest Kelly website, where its described  as a “masterpiece”  and “that perfect gift”.  They’ve recently reduced the price from $34.95 to $29.95, with free Australia wide postage ,  but on the Angus and Robertson web page its RRP is $27.45.  I saw an old copy for […]

13th December : Please read UPDATED COMMENTS A central claim in the Kelly mythology is that when the Police headed into the Wombat ranges in search of Ned and Dan Kelly, their intention was not to capture them but to kill them. Ned Kelly submitted what he believed were two proofs of this, the first […]

Heath Ledger  as a Psychopath in Batman : he also played Ned Kelly, another Psychopath? The day after the anniversary  of Ned Kellys death, the Queensland Courier Mail ran an item with the accurate but cleverly provocative  headline “Ned Kelly’s last words were not ‘such is life’.  It was provocative of course because most people […]

Instead of making Updates to my earlier Posts I have decided to Post these comments separately because the format of this Blog is such that they might otherwise not be seen, and someone needs to draw attention to whats going on in the miserable world of the Kelly fanatics.The most notable news is the removal […]

I decided at the very beginning of my engagement with the Kelly world, that I was not going to expose my true identity. This was because I had been observing the goings-on for a while, and had seen quite vicious personal attacks on named individuals, both men and women, by people who seemed at times […]

On November 11th 1880, 134 years ago this week, Ned Kelly was hanged and his body buried in the grounds of the Melbourne Gaol. Since then, nearly 400 books have been written about him and the tumultuous events that resulted in his untimely death at age 26, and now, yet another one has just been […]

I have copied below the interesting debate that has been continuing as Comments following my Post  about Lonigans death at SBC. Ive reposted it here because I suspect that other people might  be interested to read it but not be aware that it is ongoing.  Dave said… Proponents of the quartered bullet theory forget that they […]

 Inside the Kelly Cabin  Ned Kelly provided a description of what happened at Stringybark Creek in the Jerilderie Letter, saying he had killed Lonigan with a single shot. However, as discussed in my earlier post “Inconvenient Truths about Stringybark Creek” we now know that Kellys statement is not true – Lonigan was shot several times. […]

According to the review of this book by Frank Clune on the greatest Kelly website in the world, the author “sets out to tell the story his way and succeeds quite well”. It would have been useful to read what exactly is meant by “his” way, and why he manages it “quite” well rather than […]

  Constable Thomas Lonigan One of the more intriguing of the very many puzzles and unsolved mysteries of the Kelly story is the detail of exactly what happened when Constable Lonigan was shot and killed at Stringybark Creek. The puzzle that needs to be solved is the discrepancy between what  two witnesses said happened, and […]