I’ve just visited a Kelly Facebook page where they have had a very brief discussion about an undated essay by John McQuilton : Ned Kelly and the curious case of Susan Scott. There’s a few likes and the obligatory attacks on me, but apart from the suggestion that Mrs Scott had ‘a little thing’ for […]
In Discussion
Even More Extreme Violence by the Kelly Clan
Ned Kellys uncle smashed William Skelton over the head with a heavy Bullock yoke like this and left him permanently disabled The following words are taken from the Interview with Ned Kelly that was published in August 1880, and are among the most famous of all the many words attributed to him. They express the […]
The Hero at Glenrowan wasn’t Ned Kelly but Thomas Curnow.
I have to admit until a few days ago I hadn’t known there was“a local tradition of commemorating the 1880 Siege at Glenrowan, when Ned Kelly made his last stand” but this year the commemoration is going to be a fund-raising dinner for the proposed Joanne Griffiths Ned Kelly Center at Glenrowan. Its going to […]
Even horses didnt escape Kelly Clan brutality
What kind of person would hack a beautiful animal like this to death with an axe? How about Ned Kellys Uncle? There’s been a lot of angry reaction to my recent posts about criminality in the Kelly clan. People hated looking at that photo of the young woman with the smashed-up face. But I chose […]
The Cover-up
In the last couple of Blog Posts I’ve highlighted two of the many crimes of violence that Kelly clan members carried out against their own women. They both involved drunkenness, and hideous violence that followed rejection of demands for sex. In one case the response to this rejection was to set a fire that […]
Exposed : More Domestic Violence in the Kelly clan
What Ned Kelly’s uncle did to his sister Margarets face was much WORSE than this! The image Kelly sympathisers want you to have in your minds of the extended family of Ned Kellys aunts and uncles as he was growing up, is that they were decent but poor country folk, struggling to make a living […]
The rotten truth about the Kelly Clan
Everything widow Ellen Kelly and her family owned was destroyed in 1868 by Neds uncle James One of the most popular Kelly ‘quotes’ is “Such is life” – which are supposed to be but are not Ned Kellys last words. Nobody is really sure if he ever said ‘such is life’ but experts agree they […]
Sentencing remarks
The great Judge Sir Redmond Barry I wrote last week that one of the things I dislike more than anything about Kelly idolatry is that it encourages and supports disrespect and contempt for the police, both then and now. Another specific thing that I find contemptible in the pro-Kelly community is the disrespect and contempt […]
Another Anti-Police Kelly Myth exposed.
The Benalla Bootmakers Shop : still standing. What idiot put the power pole in front of it? Probably the thing I object to most about Kelly idolatry is that it encourages and supports disrespect and contempt for the police, because police hate was what motivated Ned Kellys entire lifestyle. The troll on his slag heap […]
Victoria Rejoiced when the Kelly Gang was wiped out!
This article from a few days after the siege at Glenrowan should remind everyone that the Kelly Gang were supported then, as now, by only a very tiny minority of the population. This was true even in ‘Kelly country’ where there were so few supporters that they couldn’t raise a few pounds to get their […]