‘Under Siege’ the newly published book about Francis Augustus Hare is sub-titled ‘The Man Who Caught Ned Kelly’. The author is his great-great grand niece Sue Hare. Sue has written in the first person so that the book reads like an autobiography, giving voice to a man who played a key role in the […]
Month: July 2026
A NEWLY UNCOVERED MYTH ABOUT NED KELLYS CHILDHOOD
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 […]