Tag: Ned Kelly
Listen To Older Voices: The story of Trooper Thomas McIntyre – Part 2
This is the second part of a 3-part story of the shoot-out between the police and Ned Kelly’s gang at Stringybark Creek, some 143...
Listen To Older Voices: The story of Trooper Thomas McIntyre – Part 1
Welcome to a special and remarkable story of the Life & Times of Trooper Thomas McIntyre, as told by Laurie and Mary-Rose Hookey.
McIntyre was...
Sunday essay: how a ‘gonzo’ press gang forged the Ned Kelly legend
Destruction of the Kelly Gang. Drawn by
Thomas Carrington during the siege. State Library of Victoria
Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism...
True History of the Kelly Gang review: an unheroic portrait of a violent, unhinged, colonial punk
This screen version of Ned Kelly does not die a hero. Stan
Justin Kurzel’s latest film, True History of the Kelly Gang, marks the tenth screen version...
THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.
It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...