Ned Kelly
‘We’re still hunted’: Ned Kelly family descendants lose legal bid for cultural protections
Joanne Griffiths, a fourth-generation descendant of Ned and Dan Kelly’s parents, John and Ellen Kelly, said the decision was the latest setback in clashes with Victoria’s legal system that has punished the family for more than a hundred years.
- by David Estcourt
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Ned Kelly’s childhood home offers a lesson on historic gardens
Your garden might not date back to a bushranger, but it can still honour what has come before.
- by Megan Backhouse
The escape artist with a ‘volcano in his brain’: Perth’s own Ned Kelly
Our Edward Kelly was a cop-killer who single-handedly brought about a change in gun laws, as colourful a character as his better-known Victorian namesake.
- by Mic Looby
Hundreds of never-before-seen Sidney Nolan artworks up for grabs
Organisers say everyone ‘can have a chance of bidding and buying’ at the auction of more than 200 ‘modestly priced’ artworks in Melbourne.
- by Carolyn Webb
The Indigenous stock woman upending the Ned Kelly myth
Artist Thea Perkins has challenged the myth of Ned Kelly with her life-size mural at Carriageworks, unveiled Wednesday for the Sydney Festival.
- by Linda Morris
Enough of this tin-hat weirdo, Australia needs a new cultural hero
Who made it compulsory to make Ned Kelly cameo in every single Australian novel, poem, or painting ever?
- by Eliza Reilly
‘No hero’: New Ned Kelly book wins praise from police chief
The author of a new true crime book dubbed a must-read by Victoria’s police chief finds bushranger was a manipulative, violent criminal.
- by Carolyn Webb
Glenrowan bridge looms large in fight over Ned Kelly’s legacy
Plans for a new rail bridge have sparked a fight over how the Kelly gang should be remembered at the siege site in Glenrowan.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Opinion
History
Hawthorn, we have a problem. Boroondara Council needs a rocket.
What child hasn’t imagined donning an astronaut suit, getting into a rocket and flying into space?
- by Duncan Fine
Ned Kelly’s ‘extraordinary’ sister Kate drawn out of bushranger’s shadow
A new biography of Kate Kelly reveals Ned Kelly’s younger sister was on stage the day of her brother’s execution in a desperate bid for cash and public understanding.
- by Carolyn Webb
From the Archives, 1880: The final hours of Ned Kelly
At 10 o'clock in the morning 140 years ago, the "fatal moment" had arrived for bushranger Ned Kelly.
- by Staff correspondent