Here’s a question that the Kelly sympathisers have never wanted to answer: If their claim is true that Ned Kelly was innocent and had not assaulted Fitzpatrick on April 15th 1878, why, immediately after ‘nothing happened’ did he and Dan Kelly go into hiding at a reinforced hut in the Wombat ranges and spend so […]
The Actual True Story of Ned Kelly Part IV : 1877 and the Fitzpatrick Incident
Early in 1877 Superintendent Nicolson visited Ellen Kelly and her children in their shack on 11 Mile Creek, near Greta. This was the year that Ned Kelly claimed he was living the indulgent life of a ‘rambling gambler’ but Nicholson reported that his mother and siblings ‘appeared to be living in poverty and squalor’. It […]
KENNEDY TREE BELIEVERS COMPLAINTS DISMISSED BY HERITAGE VICTORIA
Bill always maintained that he was entirely within his rights to do what he did at the so-called “Kennedy Tree”, but the people who were annoyed that he had done metal detecting at the tree they think is a sacred site went ballistic and made all kinds of hysterical claims about it being destroyed and […]
The Actual True Story of Ned Kelly : Part Three
In 1871 an incident occurred in Ned Kellys life that’s most often cited as a proof of the Kellys claim that the police persecuted and harassed them – but it only appears that way if vital facts are left out. This event began when Ned Kelly was arrested and charged with stealing a horse that […]
The KTG have NOT Found the Kennedy Tree
The Burman photos of the “Kennedy Tree” are not the only sources of clues to finding the place where the Kelly gang murdered Sergeant Michael Kennedy. There are also reports made at the time describing what happened, and most of them contain information that directly contradicts the central claim made by the KTG that the […]
A KENNEDY TREE FARCE
THE KELLY NEWS Our Motto : You Deserve the TRUTH KELLY SUPPORTERS SHOCKED and SICKENED by SACRED SITE VANDALISM Side by side comparisons of before and after easily show the appalling destruction at the site By our Special reporter: NOTE: Nothing you are about to read is True (except the quotes, which are […]
The Actual True Story of Ned Kelly : Part Two
In Part One I presented an overview of our current knowledge of the early years of Ned Kellys life. The important message from Part one was that Red Kellys family was known as a poor but law abiding family, and they were not troubled in any way by police from the time […]
The Actual True Story of Ned Kelly : Part one
One good thing that Justin Kurzel’s crazy fantasy movie about the Kelly Gang might have done is make people ask what the genuinely true story really is. And it’s a good question because there are so many versions of the story out there, all claiming to be definitive, so anyone could be forgiven for being […]
‘True Story of the Kelly Gang’ – my review
I finally decided I should see this movie for myself, though as most will know I had already expressed a view, based on what most others in Kelly world circles have said about it, that I might not. Aidan Phelan on A Guide to Australian Bushrangers had excoriated the movie in quite a relentless way, […]
Film Review : True Story of the Kelly Gang
Having read Carey’s novel some years ago I was not expecting any historical accuracy in this film, and this review is not suggesting that there should have been any. Carey’s “True History” is wildly inaccurate in its representation of practically every aspect of the Kelly story, and I personally found the novel a tedious slog after the first 100 […]