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The Kellys were fringe dwellers, hardened criminals preying on the property of rich and poor alike. To cast them as revolutionary heroes is absurd
Dec 12 2025
22 mins
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It has been 140 years since Ned Kelly held innocent Victorians hostage at Glenrowan, costing two of them their lives. Things are a bit different these days: an entire state is the captive of a Premier whose every latest entry in a growing ledger of incompetence is matched by the further, step-by-step dismantling of his subjects' liberties
Sep 22 2020
8 mins
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In its own way the latest cinematic saga of the Glenrowan outlaws is true to Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning book, of which the author has said, “It’s the most invented, made-up book I’ve ever written.” With its plethora of absurdities and falsehoods,True History of the Kelly Gang does Carey proud
Nov 04 2019
10 mins
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Apart from fancifully reconstructing a conversation between a mother and her outlaw son, author Grantlee Kieza breaks no new ground in this latest addition to the ever-expanding trove of books that present a wild, lawless and thoroughly disreputable family as oppressed heroes
May 13 2017
9 mins
