Ned Kelly The True Story

On ‘The Life and Times of Ned Kelly’ FB page the other day, Peterson wrote that Ned Kelly was ‘raised in desperate poverty’. According to AI, desperate poverty is “the most severe and life-threatening form of extreme poverty, characterized by a complete absence of basic human needs such as food, safe drinking water, sanitation, and shelter. It is a state […]

We continue to wait for Jack Peterson to keep his promise, and explain why he has rejected a view based on a mountain of evidence and accepted for 146 years about Kellys intent at Glenrowan, in favour of a claim based on just one thing: an 1800-word letter written by Kelly on November 5th 1880, […]

A core belief of people who defend Ned Kelly is that Kelly only became a criminal because of the harassment and abuse that he and his family received at the hands of the police. They believe his life was an heroic stand against police maltreatment and persecution of himself and his family. Here is part […]

‘Sons of the Southern Cross’ by Grantlee Kieza was published in 2014.The cover features the Eureka Flag and four figures: Peter Lalor, a digger, Ned Kelly in armour and a Trade Unionist. On the back, it says Kieza ‘…. tells the rich and rollicking story of the (Eureka) flag though the tales of the miner’s […]

I wrote a while back that it’s not enough to debunk Kelly myths once and expect that true believers will straight away toss out whatever belief of theirs that had just been shown to be false, and move on. The natural response, initially at least, is to defend one’s beliefs, but rational people will eventually […]

    Craig Barton, an extreme Kelly cult propagandist, started a discussion the other day on the “Outbreak” page about the .31 calibre Colt revolver that Kelly used during the Fitzpatrick ‘incident’, and the injury it caused to Fitzpatrick’s wrist. He and Mick Fitzsimons and Rowsell, as usual, were determined to paint the policeman as […]

In his 1986 book ‘The Peoples Force’ Robert Haldane included a controversial theory about the police search party that went looking for the Kellys at Stringybark creek. He claimed that the police were ‘disguised as diggers’ – meaning that police actively took steps to hide their identity and appear to be ‘diggers’ – miners – […]

This account by Wangaratta Lawyer John Suta has been available online for several years, but recently it was used as the basis for a FB post that asked “Did Ned Kelly get a fair Trial from Judge Redmond Barry?” Wangaratta Lawyer Mr John Suta doesnt think so and in 2013 presented a paper explaining why […]

INTRODUCTION Mr Stuart Rowsell, recently made the truly sensational announcement on Facebook, that all of us who think that Ned Kelly planned to wreck the train at Glenrowan are wrong. The people who got it wrong, are virtually all Kelly sympathisers and non-sympathisers, and all pro and anti-Kelly authors, historians, writers, journalists and commentators apart […]

I wrote this for Facebook but it ended up too long…..so…enjoy! Am I the only observer who has noticed that the windbag Kelly conspiracy theorist Stuart Rowsell is exposing the Kelly sympathiser community as seriously ignorant and completely spineless? Not a single one of them has dared to challenge his recent prolific advancement of a […]