In Discussion

Quite apart from both being policemen, Sergeant Steele and Constable Fitzpatrick have several other important things in common, not the least of which is that for decades their memories have been completely trashed and dragged through the mud by Kelly admirers. Kelly sympathisers won’t ever concede this fact, blinded as they are to truth by […]

On PROV the other day I came across the Report made by Constable Arthur about what he did during the Siege at Glenrowan.  Its dated July 2nd 1880.  I have copied it out in its entirety:   North Eastern District Benalla Police Station 2nd July 1880   Report of Constable Arthur 2971 relative to the […]

ABOVE : Ned Kelly Sympathisers lined up in front of the now officially debunked “Kennedy Tree”   In 2019, a group of four amateur historians calling themselves the Kennedy Tree Group announced in a media campaign that they believed they had found the actual tree beside which Ned Kelly murdered Sgt Michael Kennedy in 1878. […]

Ive decided to do a third Blog post about Steele, but the point of this Post is not so much to add to what is already written about Steele, but to use this saga to illustrate the way in which visitors to these Ned Kelly-related Facebook pages are being misinformed by people purporting to be […]

In my last Blog post I explained how Sgt Steeles image has been falsely smeared by Kelly writers who only gave half of the story of his involvement at Glenrowan. They all salaciously repeated the allegation Constable Arthur made at the Royal Commission that Steele had gleefully announced that he had shot ‘mother Jones in […]

In the Kelly sympathiser world, only Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick is hated more than Sergeant Arthur Loftus Maule Steele.  What people seem to remember most about him, apart from his weird middle names, and what people despise him mostly for is that at the siege at Glenrowan, in a state of excitable blood lust he was […]

The upcoming Ned Kelly Alive projects for North East Victoria are a crossroads for the Kelly story. The important decision the content creators for these projects have to make at an early stage is whether or not they are going to use their modern technology and creativity to tell the same old story in the […]

‘Lament’ continues the trend started by Aidan Phelan last year for Kelly devotees to write historical fiction, rather than attempt the more difficult task of separating facts from fiction and writing the true story. Author Nicole Kelly – not a relation – says she’s ‘loved the story of the Kelly gang’ as long as she […]

Part Two of Morrissey’s latest book focusses on the detail of the attack at Stringybark creek, and the immediate aftermath. The accounts of what happened provided by McIntyre and by Kelly himself are well known and are repeated along with interesting commentary about the facts which debunk the Kelly myths and conspiracy theories about the […]

“I would rather have my eyes gouged out than read this book”  Well known Kelly sympathiser and conspiracy theorist demonstrating his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and the truth.His FB page is dedicated to discrediting a Kelly book he admits to having never read!   Writing this review of Doug Morrissey’s third and final book of […]