But there are sharply differing views: the Ned Kelly story rests on different interpretations of "facts". According to some he was a murderer and a cattle thief elevated to hero status by a public ...

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The hero-worship of Ned Kelly is unshaken by the revelation of this bloodthirsty plan, or by his other violent and cruel actions. For the many Australians in awe of the helmet-wearing anti-hero ...

It opened yesterday and runs for three months. It will feature Nolan's Ned Kelly series painted in 1946/47. But who was Ned Kelly? Most of us are familiar with the legend but, as Michael Delahaye ...

who owns Glenrowan's Ned Kelly's Last Stand theme park, believes the film will have little to do with history. ''It's about only five per cent truth,'' he said. ''People think he's a hero.

Although Ned Kelly was laid to rest with his family in 2014, the nation is still divided on whether he was a hero or hellraiser. Finally, 132 years after his state-sanctioned execution, Ned Kelly was ...

Hero or villain, that duality has pretty ... the man from both myths and digs deeper to give Kelly an origin story in three parts, told by Ned himself in a letter he writes from prison to the ...

Ned Kelly, after all, was the sort of person ... Magazines from the day, says Curtin, portrayed him as either a villain or a hero, with some detective magazines and other media featuring him ...

“I thought [Ned Kelly] was both [a hero and a villain],” 27-year-old MacKay tells Yahoo. “An identity, be it your own or be it the character's, first and foremost is who you are inside. I can see the ...

THE Kellys weren’t class war heroes to their local community, who respected authority and avoided them. We must stop seeing Ned and his gang through rose-tinted glasses, writes Doug Morrissey.