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Jun 25, 2014 · During his short life, Kelly was a polarising figure, and remains one today – so much so that his family members have taken the precaution of burying him in an unmarked grave. Many view Kelly not so much as a folk hero but as a convicted murderer responsible for the death of three police officers.
Dec 5, 2018 · Ned Kelly in life, as in death, was a polarising figure. During his outlawry Ned became an adversary to the establishment but a crusader to the common folk. When he rode the trails of North East Victoria it was the fight for land between squatter and selector that drew the battle lines.
May 19, 2014 · It occurred to me some time ago that I should probably know more – after all Ned Kelly is supposed to be the most talked about, written about, documented discussed and lets not forget the most polarising figure in all Australian history.
Jun 14, 2024 · Ned Kelly, in life, as in death, was a polarising figure. During his reign as an outlaw in the late 1870s, mainstream literature portrayed Ned as a ruthless criminal, while pulp publications incited notoriety, encouraging it to spread through oral supposition and folk songs.
Notorious bushranger and national identity Ned Kelly was hanged at Melbourne Gaol in 1880. It was the final act in one of the most colourful, controversial and sometimes violent chapters in Australia's history.
Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly was Victoria’s most infamous bushranger. He led a group of outlaws known as the Kelly gang in the late 1870s. For 18 months, while on the run from police, they robbed banks, took hostages, chopped down telegraph poles and destroyed part of a railway line.
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In 1880, when his attempt to derail and ambush a police train failed, he and his gang, dressed in armour fashioned from stolen plough mouldboards, engaged in a final gun battle with the police at Glenrowan. Kelly, the only survivor, was severely wounded by police fire and captured.
