The Latest From Doug Morrissey
It has been 140 years since Ned Kelly held innocent Victorians hostage at Glenrowan, costing two of them their lives. Things are a bit different these days: an entire state is the captive of a Premier whose every latest entry in a growing ledger of incompetence is matched by the further, step-by-step dismantling of his subjects' liberties
Sep 22 2020
8 mins
In its own way the latest cinematic saga of the Glenrowan outlaws is true to Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning book, of which the author has said, “It’s the most invented, made-up book I’ve ever written.” With its plethora of absurdities and falsehoods, True History of the Kelly Gang does Carey proud
Nov 04 2019
10 mins
It suits the purposes of republicans and others to promote the Kelly clan as freedom fighters. What tosh! They had much more in common with modern Melbourne's ethnic gangsters, who loot, terrorise and fence their stolen goods through a network of more experienced criminals
Jun 18 2017
23 mins
Apart from fancifully reconstructing a conversation between a mother and her outlaw son, author Grantlee Kieza breaks no new ground in this latest addition to the ever-expanding trove of books that present a wild, lawless and thoroughly disreputable family as oppressed heroes
May 13 2017
9 mins
