A constant theme in the Kelly literature, and in the stream of comments on pro-Kelly Facebook pages is the corruption of Victorian police, and their harassment of the Kelly clan. In fact this claim about police harassment and corruption is the core justification provided by the pro-kelly writers and Facebook page posters for Ned Kellys […]
Will John Delaney be remembered at the Siege Dinner?
The “Ned Kelly Siege Dinner” is to be held in two weeks’ time at Glenrowan. Ive already written my thoughts about it HERE. The question I asked then, and still haven’t had an answer to, is what on earth are you going to be celebrating? Ive been much too busy this week to do any serious […]
At last, a movie that will reveal the true story about the brutality of the Kelly Gang killings at Stringybark Creek
I wonder if Ben Head and Ben Thompson realised what they were getting themselves into when they decided to attempt a movie about what happened to a party of four police at Stringybark Creek in 1878. I wonder if they realised that saying they were going to tell the story from ‘the police perspective’would make them […]
Mrs Scott : victim of a psychopath
I’ve just visited a Kelly Facebook page where they have had a very brief discussion about an undated essay by John McQuilton : Ned Kelly and the curious case of Susan Scott. There’s a few likes and the obligatory attacks on me, but apart from the suggestion that Mrs Scott had ‘a little thing’ for […]
Even More Extreme Violence by the Kelly Clan
Ned Kellys uncle smashed William Skelton over the head with a heavy Bullock yoke like this and left him permanently disabled The following words are taken from the Interview with Ned Kelly that was published in August 1880, and are among the most famous of all the many words attributed to him. They express the […]
The Hero at Glenrowan wasn’t Ned Kelly but Thomas Curnow.
I have to admit until a few days ago I hadn’t known there was“a local tradition of commemorating the 1880 Siege at Glenrowan, when Ned Kelly made his last stand” but this year the commemoration is going to be a fund-raising dinner for the proposed Joanne Griffiths Ned Kelly Center at Glenrowan. Its going to […]
Even horses didnt escape Kelly Clan brutality
What kind of person would hack a beautiful animal like this to death with an axe? Ned Kellys Uncle, thats who. There’s been a lot of angry reaction to my recent posts about criminality in the Kelly clan. People hated looking at that photo of the young woman with the smashed-up face. But I chose […]
The Cover-up
In the last couple of Blog Posts I’ve highlighted two of the many crimes of violence that Kelly clan members carried out against their own women. They both involved drunkenness, and hideous violence that followed rejection of demands for sex. In one case the response to this rejection was to set a fire that […]
Exposed : More Domestic Violence in the Kelly clan
What Ned Kelly’s uncle did to his sister Margarets face was much WORSE than this! The image Kelly sympathisers want you to have in your minds of the extended family of Ned Kellys aunts and uncles as he was growing up, is that they were decent but poor country folk, struggling to make a living […]
The rotten truth about the Kelly Clan
Everything widow Ellen Kelly and her family owned was destroyed in 1868 by Neds uncle James One of the most popular Kelly ‘quotes’ is “Such is life” – which are supposed to be but are not Ned Kellys last words. Nobody is really sure if he ever said ‘such is life’ but experts agree they […]