American Reacts to AUSTRALIA'S MOST INFAMOUS FUGITIVE - Ned Kelly PART 2

[@mrgoono9264]

I've been a Ned Kelly tour guide for 16 years now. Only got 5 minutes before I'd better do one of those tours. Although this is more accurate than many Ned Kelly documentaries it still has errors so don't take anything as gospel. It was Dan, not Ned, who accompanied the bank manager's wife to church. The £8,000 reward was for the whole gang, not just Ned. The train was flagged down by a school teacher who Ned let go after midnight. The teacher wasn't a sympathiser, Ned just trusted him to "go home but not dream too loudly" because he had informed Ned that another captive was hiding a pistol. Julian Ashton's sketch of Ned in the dock was in Beechworth where they had a committal hearing before his trial in Melbourne. This site will inevitably be invaded by trolls who want to see Ned's story forgotten about because they only believe the police testimony while discarding testimony of those who were sympathisers or family members. I will not be responding to trolls. Do your own research if you want a better understanding. My suggestion is "The Last Outlaw" miniseries.

[@Reneesillycar74]

Thanks for that ✌🏼

[@raucousreg9064]

I've had a few run-ins with those trolls. You have to love getting piled on because you repeat something one of the family told you more than forty years ago - "No-one in the family agrees with that", "No-one in the family told you that", etc. I recently had a chat with an historian who told me some interesting stories about the aftermath of the Breakout and events that transpired some years later which, he claims, were totally covered up - if they occurred they were definitely covered up as I have never heard the story before, but he says there is archival evidence. (I won't elaborate but it is an incredible story (if true.) and would put an end to the trolls!) He has written a book on those later events for which he is still seeking a publisher.

[@samsabastian5560]

Mr Goono I have corrected your promotion of Ned Kelly before where you claim fiction as factual. As you know, The Last Outlaw is a load of fiction throughout and is not factual at all. While you keep promoting the myths, fiction and lies, it displays you have a lack of integrity, especially when you have been referred so often to the facts, which you continue to ignore.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@raucousreg9064 Well, let me tell you what a Kelly descendent told me. She said that 250 police were sacked as a result of the Royal Commission into Vic Police held in 1881. Only 3 junior police were dismissed as a result of that commission. You should recognise that what the family says is firstly hearsay, and secondly their attitude would always be pro Kelly, rather than pro truth.

[@mrgoono9264]

@@heatherrowles9930 I recommend a tv series that is closest to the facts. I can point out a few inaccuracies but can see which statements the scenes in this series stem from. For instance Mrs Byrne didn't pay the storekeeper Paddy Allen after the Euroa bank robbery but after the Jerilderie bank robbery. Paddy Allen was interviewed by Cookson about the incident. The reason I promote this miniseries is that it was filmed with historians who refused to let the cameras roll until saddles were positioned correctly on horses and everything was as historically accurate as possible. As far as Ned Kelly's diaries from the Old Melbourne Gaol are concerned I have never heard of them. I've transcribed court records, helped digitise newspapers, read countless statements and interviews, spent time with the Public Records Office of Victoria and Police Museum but have never heard of any diary. The closest thing would be the Jerilderie and Cameron letters. I will contact the Old Melbourne Gaol to ask about this diary. Ned did admit in the end that if his life meant nothing more than to teach the Victorian police that they can drive a good man bad is Ned admitting he had been driven bad. The reforms in the Victorian police force were because they recognised the police force had exacerbated the situation. I'm not saying Kelly was a hero or a villain I'm trying to sit on the fence (gets painful). I will not be responding to Mr. Sabastian's ad hominem attacks. Maybe working as a policeman has fed his biased uncorroborated claims.

[@JayWhy1964]

The armour was made by the Kelly Gang with the help of local blacksmiths. It is made of steel from plough shares, leather, iron bolts, in five pieces with separate helmet and visor. Total weight of armour and helmet: 41.4 kg (91 pounds)

[@mrgoono9264]

I had to don a suit of armour to be Joe Byrne for a documentary. The gang were crack shots but I found it was impossible to aim my pistols while wearing the helmet. "See I told you this armour would be the death of us!" Joe yelled to Ned shortly before he was gunned down.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@mrgoono9264 REALLY? Ned Kelly was laying down 150 yards behind the hotel when Joe Byrne was hit by a police bullet inside the hotel at about 5am, where he bled to death.

[@looking8030]

I’ve seen the helmet at the Melbourne museum looked heavy as hell

[@ingridclare7411]

@@samsabastian5560 Oh its 'Mr Intelligent again'.....

[@samsabastian5560]

@@ingridclare7411 It's nothing to do with intelligence, Ingrid. It's all to do with facts, not fiction that most who comment on this and other sites falsely believe. Do you object to someone telling the truth?

[@mattman810]

ned kelly is a hero, he stood firm against oppression and although he died at the end, he won, the royal commission after his death just proved his point

[@samsabastian5560]

MattMan Can you show us some evidence of the oppression you claim against Ned Kelly? The Royal Commission held in 1881 stated clearly that the police acted with integrity regarding the criminality of Ned Kelly. Your comment is simply, quite wrong.

[@mattman810]

@@samsabastian5560 i fact checked myself and stand corrected.

[@steelcrown7130]

@@mattman810 Excellent. It takes a big-hearted person to accept correction graciously. Good for you.

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

Theirs actually two sides of the coin writing in history about Ned kelly. The Victorian police files making out Ned was just a villan and a murderer. Basically the description the person was telling about Ned kelly in this video. And another story writing by people who knew Ned Kelly and whiteness the events. Back in the early settlement in Australia. 40.000 Irish convicts was actually Irish captured rebellion against the English. When they arrived in Australia there was hard relations between the Irish and the English. Ned kelly family was target by ruthless ignorant English cops. One that had raped Ned's sister that turned Ned into a cop killer. Victoria Police won't put that in their files though.

[@grahamy3400]

Kelly was a criminal who killed three police officers. Not much of a hero.

[@joefoley6297]

Police fired 30,000 shots into the hotel. A pregnant woman escaped at dawn. And was fired at. Ned was no angel - but the Police were something else!

[@bradwilliams7212]

No police fired at any woman leaving Ann Jones Inn. That is fiction made up by pro Kelly authors.

[@Peajay007]

As a Victorian I appreciate what he tried to do. My ancestors were convicts and to this day I see Ned as the one that protected them and rid the corruption in the force.

[@samsabastian5560]

Penn Smith Can you refer me to the corruption you refer to please? I have read the entire Royal Commission and the word corrupt is not used in the entire document. The Royal Commissioners who were almost all anti-police stated clearly that the police acted with integrity regarding Kelly's criminality. So I would be interested for you to show me the corruption you refer to.

[@janiirosethorn6137]

@@samsabastian5560 I am reading the comments on these videos and it's obvious a lot of these people have a very tenuous grasp of Australian history. Where do they get this misinformation from? Good on you for pointing some of this out.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@janiirosethorn6137 So True, jannii. Most of the false information that is being repeated here has been promoted and written about by Kelly fans. Facts have been ignored and fiction presented that presents Ned Kelly as some sort of hero standing against alleged oppression of the government and the police. It is all false. Sadly, so many believe this rot. Several new books have come out recently that point out the fiction, but it is difficult to change the minds of the ignorant. My book will be targeted at secondary school level, and will be factual. That should, in time, make a huge difference.

[@lifelonglearner56]

@@samsabastian5560 Get hold of the biography "Ned Kelly" written by Peter Fitzsimons - written with full reference lists to all documentation and evidence. The level of police corruption and brutality was damning.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@lifelonglearner56 Peter FitzSimoins book is a load of fictitious rubbish. The suggestion he made that the police were corrupt was smashed by the Royal Commissioners, who were, incidentally, anti-police. They looked for bad behaviour from the police and found NONE. Read the RC yourself. The word 'corrupt' is not mentioned once in any question, answer or recommendation. FitzSimons wrote a load of rubbish. Ask any professional historian what they think of his book?

[@hankfacer7098]

Ryan you need to check out "The Story of His Head". Even today many people here hold Ned up as a hero. That was no bucket mate, his armour is another story. Ned is up there with the best of your outlaws.

[@samsabastian5560]

Hank Racer Ned Kelly was no hero. He was just a stand-over- thug and a murdering criminal of the worst kind.

[@brendonrookes1151]

what are you talking about his helmet is on display at the melburne museam

[@samsabastian5560]

@@brendonrookes1151 What I am talking about is TRUTH. Ned Kelly's armour is on display at the Victoria State Library. The people of NE Victoria, at the time Ned Kelly was finally removed from society, were delighted that his criminal empire was at last destroyed. He had the entire population in fear of what he would do to them. He had already murdered 3 police officers in cold blood. His thieving ways put many a poor settler into bankruptcy. Kelly was a very serious criminal. It is clear your knowledge of this vicious criminal is abysmal.

[@brendonrookes1151]

@@samsabastian5560 the kellys never stole off the poor also the police back then were corrupt as any thing

[@wolf1066]

2:20 - so they basically took the adage "may as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb" to heart. "whadda they gonna do, boys? Hang us twice?" That is kind of the main problem with death sentences - especially historically, when they'd hang you for horse theft or even-more-trivial thefts. Once someone's done something that's going to get them executed, there's no longer anything to discourage them from committing more/worse crimes.

[@macman1469]

Most of us think Ned was a good bloke in a bad situation. His quote "Ah well I suppose it had had to come to this -SUCH IS LIFE" , is often shortened to just the last 3 words. The bloke wrote his own manifesto ,to help the oppressed lower class. Yes Ned Kelly is a working class HERO.

[@samsabastian5560]

macman Most of us? Speak for yourself. Most intelligent people know that Ned Kelly was just a very serious, murdering criminal. Ned Kelly NEVER uttered the words "Such is Life" on the gallows. The only people that think Ned Kelly is a hero are the uneducated, uninformed, and bogans.

[@solreaver83]

Most is a stretch I'd think. He was a murderer from a criminal family with no respect for human life and was willing to kill a train full of civilians to kill a few troopers.

[@Kalashboy420]

@@solreaver83 tell us how you really feel?

[@solreaver83]

@@Kalashboy420 statements of fact

[@samsabastian5560]

macman Ned Kelly never uttered the words, such is life, on the gallows. Fictitious nonsense. Ned Kelly did not help lower classes, he robbed from them extensively. You have no idea.

[@drcmac]

🔹️ Yes, Ned Kelly is still a Hero figure, to this day. SUCH IS LIFE 👀👍❗

[@samsabastian5560]

HOOROO TV2 Only to uneducated people who have no idea.

[@briantayler1230]

The armour was made out of plow shares. It was thick steel and heavy. Firearms were black powder firing slow heavy projectiles and did not have the punch that smokeless rifles would have just fifteen years later. The Bunyip was a monster that lived in water. A story told to small children by tribes from the south to keep them away from the danger of drowning. There were real Bunyips in the north, they were crocodiles, and stories of crocodiles may be the origin of the Bunyip.

[@krissee6961]

My father's first teaching post was in Jerilderie where he, and later Mum, boarded with an older lady, Mrs Tiffin. Her husband , Squizzy Tiffin, was a young fellow who ran chores and worked at the Jerilderie hotel where Ned and co had Squizzy mind their horses. Squizzy also helped carry the bank record books out to the street to be burnt...so that the banks couldn't chase after the struggling poor people for loans to be paid.

[@bradwilliams7212]

You obviously do not know that there were probably four copies of what was owed by residents to the bank. You need to wake up to reality, sport.

[@foxjwizard6069]

I'm related to ned kelly so, nice to see that people still like learning about him :)

[@BassMatt1972]

A fact I only learned recently (and Ive been to Glenrowan etc and stood at the site of the Hotel and on the railway he damaged), Ned Kelly aged 11 saved the life of a 7 year old kid drowning in a creek. His family gave him a green silk sash for his bravery.. The day he was shot down he had that green sash around his waist.. £2000 in 1880 is approx $286,084.99 United States Dollar today.. His bounty would be approx $15 million today.. a LOT of money.. No problem.. haha Black Trackers are indigenous trackers who know the desert etc and can track animals/people.. its the name used in the era..

[@elizabeth10392]

I think the sash was given to him by the local mayor rather than his family. Not positive though 🙂

[@frenchys_prospecting]

My mates brother just bought the glenrowan tourist attraction. Lol. He plans on fixing it up even better than it ever was.

[@laylano909]

I just found out that when ned was younger a police officer raped his younger sister and got away with it as well and thats why ned hated the police

[@ajsaces5211]

For some reason I had in my head it was a red sash not green?

[@agenttheater5]

3:31 Also because from what I can tell there were plenty of people in Australia who felt bullied, persecuted and stepped on by the British police, so they seemed to want to believe that here was someone standing up to them at last.

[@bradwilliams7212]

Uninforned comment. 82% of the police in Victoria were IRISH. So tell us, where were the British police?

[@keshaponso536]

One of my favourite memories as a kid was going to The Old Melbourne Gaol (Jail) where Ned Kelly's armour and death mask were displayed. I hope kids can still see it somewhere.

[@mysticalmatt4130]

The armour is now in the nearby State Library of Victoria

[@louisekindred0059]

" Black Trackers " are the Aborigines. Aboriginal ppl are very in touch with the land being this nations first ppl. Their vast knowledge of the Australian landscape was and still is used as they can look at footprints in dirt, grass, broken branches etc and know if a person or what animal has been through there. Thus why they wanted a black tracker. They see what other's don't. They are even bought in when someone is lost in the middle of nowhere mainly the outback bush. It's an incredible talent and they have saved many a life over the year's where other's have failed. Police still to this day get advice or use them to help solve cases. Ryan a group of aboriginal ppl is called a "mob." ... a group of ppl from a particular place. There's over 250 mobs around Australia with clans. A "clan" refers to family. There's upwards of 7 clans per mob.

[@desireeg5807]

I thought the reason it was mentioned that they bought in Queensland trackers is because the different Aboriginal tribes (do we not say tribe?) had no love lost between each other, so while the VIC/NSW tribes sympathised with the Kelly Gang, and therefore wouldn't cooperate with the police, the QLD tracker didn't really care, and so would? Please let me know if I am way off :D thanks

[@louisekindred0059]

@@desireeg5807 there were 6 trackers that Kelly feared. He had heard of them before via the grapevine. They were bought down from Qld to Vic. These Native Police Queensland trackers were shameless ( if this is the right word ). The Police knew that these native trackers were brutal and had big reputations of tracking down notorious criminals due to their reputations from other cases.They had previously murdered 28 of their own indigenous ppl. They had a "don't care" attitude. Therefore they were thought the best one's to deal with the Kelly gang. Ned had also heard that they might be cannibalised by these trackers so was scared shitless if caught by them. This I'd say is why Victoria wanted these six Qld native trackers......... 1) they had no fear, were incredible trackers and got the job done and 2) Ned and his gang layed low because they knew these trackers were killer's and they didn't want to be eaten....so they thought ? Fact is these six men were lured into helping the Vic Police by being promised a large share of the reward for capturing the Kelly gang. However they never did get compensated. I'm not sure but I think the Aboriginal descendants are still fighting for the men's compensation in the courts still to this day. However seeing there were no wills and discrepancies in paperwork made on who should benefit it's a long winded case. I don't know if it was eventually resolved to be honest. It's a fact too that the Aborigines actually hated their own kind helping the 'white' Police. I can only presume that this is why these six were used and not the Vic or NSW trackers 🤷‍♀️ ...maybe someone else might know !

[@desireeg5807]

@@louisekindred0059 thank you so much for this. It's super interesting and I'll probably be looking in to it some more 😁 I appreciate your time and knowledge

[@louisekindred0059]

@@desireeg5807 You're welcome. When you can get the time to look at our villains in depth.. past the normal info fed to us by previous generations and bullsht artists 🤭 it is quite interesting and somewhat exciting. There's so many twists you find out about. I get engrossed now in our history. You don't just get the goodies vs the baddies... you get the reason's why something happened and all the nitty gritty lies told inbetween 😱...says me who just started my detective work 🙄🧐😂 gl Desiree you'll be both shocked and quite fascinated in the end of most stories ❤... it's like "where Angel's fear to Tread" hahaha

[@gregoryparnell2775]

Legend has it that BlackTrackkers were so good that they could follow a man by his shadow cast on a rock three days prior.

[@politikilter6446]

"The hats' chin straps are fastened under their noses in case of attack. In the old days, cavalry soldiers would aim for the head. The placing of the strap also ensures that the hat would come off if hit without breaking our necks." - England Queen’s Guard (Wednesday, May 27, 2020)

[@janetmitchell9980]

In The Seekers’ “I Am Australian” that you reacted to recently, there’s a line “I’m Ned Kelly on the run”.

[@marktaylor3802]

Boxing Day 1906 was the showing of Worlds first ever feature film here in Aus and it was The Story of the Kelly Gang. Pieces of it were found a few years back.

[@galcav]

Hi Ryan, FYI if you were looking for an inflation calculator for the Australian pound conversion, use the calculator version for the UK, Bank of England, as Australia was using British pounds at the time and for 500 pounds in 1880 is just under 42,000 pounds and 8000 pounds 1880 is 671,937 pounds for 2021. Just convert to $US for equivalent. Kevin, Brisbane, Australia (not California)

[@jaredmills06]

Ned Kelly is considered by many of my fellow Australians to be a national hero for his actions, and though there was a Royal Commission into the actions that lead to all of this that commission is, perhaps rightly, not well trusted. It is also important to remember that the Victorian Police Force was, and remains, one of the most corrupt police forces in the whole country. From illegal business deals, mafia and biker gang connections, and unlawful investigative activity, their force has a very dark history and a shady present.

[@RedactedRyanTV]

The biggest gang in Australia is the Victorian police.

[@fionaanderson5796]

They also refused to investigate allegations of child abuse by the Catholic church in the 1950s-90s, with any officer who tried being forced out.

[@samsabastian5560]

Jared Mills Ned Kelly is not considered a national hero by intelligent people. Only dumbo's consider him a hero.

[@RedactedRyanTV]

@@samsabastian5560 Only bootlickers consider him anything but a hero

[@fionaanderson5796]

And we see even in these comments how polarised opinions are. There is no doubt that his family were discriminated against for being Irish. The police and magistrates were mostly English and had brought their attitudes with them from the old country. This was after the potato famine (caused by the English overlords taking all the food produced and allowing none for the Irish workers) and around the time of the Modest Proposal (that the Irish should eat their babies, solving the problems of starvation and over population in one go). There are allegations of the police deliberately targeting, harassing, and bullying the Kelly family, along with other Irish. Iirc Mrs Kelly was charged and convicted for attacking a police officer when a group of off duty police rode out to the Kelly home to gang rape her daughter for "sport". There is still mixed opinion as to whether they were domestic terrorists or victims trying to defend their families from corrupt and brutal authorities. It's an interesting contrast with the miners at Eureka Stockade who also fought corruption and police harassment. At the time, they were demonised, but are now considered a cornerstone of Australian democracy and freedom.

[@marktaylor3802]

We get taught about Ned at school so yes he is an important piece of history not just a bad man.

[@Kalashboy420]

wasnt even a bad man, he cucked the government and incompetent police force so ofcourse they want you to think he is a bad man lmao

[@tropicaussie4572]

Australia had some very infamous and wild outlaws - Bushrangers . Besides the Kelly gang , there was Ben Hall , Captain Starlight and many others .

[@lukewarm2075]

Ned Kelly is a National Australian Hero we love them,

[@bradwilliams7212]

Only in the minds of the ignorant. Is that where you fit?

[@bradwilliams7212]

What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@paulbell4062]

​@@bradwilliams7212I agree with you mate he was just a criminal

[@zybch]

I saw his death mask (after death a mould was made of his head and then cast in plaster) at the Old Melbourne Gaol, and it still had a couple of his eyelashes embedded in the casting. It sort of made his last stand more real to me. I dislike how hes been glorified, but his actions did indirectly lead to the dramatic reforms and cleansing the Victorian police force went through not long after Ned was gone. They'd have happened regardless, but it may have taken a lot longer were it not for Kelly shining a light on the whole rotten mess.

[@samsabastian5560]

Mikey What rotten mess are you referring to? The Royal Commission found that the police in NE Victoria acted with integrity regarding the Kelly's criminal activities. Tell us, what reforms were made?

[@bradwilliams7212]

What rotten mess are you referring to? More police were employed, training was initiated, mounted police were issued with rifles, more police stations were built and wages were improved. I ask again what mess are you referring to?

[@sandradeayton1362]

You really need to watch one of the movies on Ned Kelly. I would recommend the one staring Heath Ledger. Although its not truely accurate, it does help to explain why the people felt as they did. Its very enjoyable and in itself, its just a great movie to watch. Also in that movie you hear some of what he wrote in his Jerildirie letter. It shows that he was an intelligent and witty man, the letter is hilarous. There are other movies about Ned, one he was played be Mick Jagger (yes from The Rolling Stones). But for pure entertainment, I would recommend the Heath Ledger one.

[@samsabastian5560]

Sandra Deayton None of the films about Ned Kelly are accurate. They all follow fictitious rubbish written by Kelly fans.

[@cherylmccloud8709]

@Leo it is most likely Ned Kelly did not have "an Australian accent" as we know it today. Although Kelly spent a few years at school? Both his parents were from Ireland & would have had strong brogue Irish accents.1st generation born Australians such as Kelly, were mostly of UK & Irish parents, linguistically it is difficult to imagine the "Aussie accent" has formed itself.

[@bradwilliams7212]

How did the people feel about Ned Kelly. He was loathed, throughout NE Victoria, as many editorials stated in very clear terms.

[@bradwilliams7212]

Your comment is not true. What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@fergo7010]

Ned was and is the peoples hero and he is a legend may he RIP

[@samsabastian5560]

Fergo Ned Kelly was not the people's hero. Where are you getting this fiction from. He was loathed by the decent people in the Greta region, because he was always stealing stock from the decent people that lived there.

[@XYklonB]

@@samsabastian5560 I love him, and I always will. He fought against the tyrannical government and died honourably for it. He sparked change in the entire continent. All that and he was just an Irish working class idiot. He will forever be a hero to me and all of Australia

[@samsabastian5560]

@@XYklonB You display an appalling lack of knowledge regarding this vicious, murdering criminal. Tyrannical government? You could not present one iota of evidence anywhere that showed the government was tyrannical. I challenge you to present evidence to support your fiction. Kelly sparked change, did he? The only things that changed were that more police were employed, they were better trained and better paid. Mounted police were issued with Martini-Henry rifles. You are obviously unaware that 82% of the police in Victoria were of Irish origin. Murderers do not quality as heroes, Thomas. You have no idea what you are talking about, and your comments make you look like the fool you are.

[@jodiecostello6356]

@@samsabastian5560 did Ned steel your grand daddy s horse Sam. Oh well got to go . All the best with that opinion of yours and I truly do hope all this love the Australian people do have for Ned really upsets you ✌️😎

[@samsabastian5560]

@@jodiecostello6356 I don't get upset Jodie, but I feel pity for people like you who have been sucked in to believe that Ned Kelly was some sort of hero, when in fact he was a low life, vicious murdering creep, as the facts show. Prove me wrong?

[@kiasack]

I have seen the final battleground and his helmet and also his guns I am from Australia but still it was cool I was like 12 it was almost 4 years ago

[@a.m11558]

There’s a great Heath Ledger movie about Ned Kelly, he plays Ned of course. The scene of Ned’s final stand in that movie is great

[@samsabastian5560]

Sevastopol Except that entire movie is made up fiction.

[@a.m11558]

@@samsabastian5560 The sequence of events is the same. I think you'll find most movies are made up fiction lmao, Troy, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, Titanic... The list goes on, champ

[@imperial_crest6809]

@@a.m11558 Don't worry, this shithead won't stop trolling. It's better we should gather the people and do a full on troll to this Sam guy till he deletes himself out of existence lol.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@a.m11558 The sequence of events in Ned Kelly's life is NOT correct at all. All the movies are distorted rubbish and not one shows his true nature.

[@a.m11558]

@@samsabastian5560 Oh, and you would know, of course.

[@stevencorlett7972]

Ned Kelly is STILL AN AUSTRALIAN LEGEND fighting the corrupt politicians & police

[@samsabastian5560]

Steven Corlett Ned Kelly will never be a legend. He was a very serious criminal. You claim corrupt politicians and police, but you could not provide one iota of evidence showing there was any corruption at all. The Royal Commission found that the police acted properly regarding the Kelly's extensive criminality. Your information is a load of fictitious rot.

[@stevencorlett7972]

Well Mr or Mrs uninformed Victorian politicians & police covered each other in their corruption.....even today it's rigged up to cover their corruptness the royal commission is run by government sympathisers who lack conviction & have an insentive to not busy their own. THATS A FACT

[@bradwilliams7212]

What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@revoran4713]

A lot of people considered Ned at the time (and still today) to be a class hero, and a good person thrust into a bad situation. Obviously, that is highly debatable, he clearly did do some horrible evil things. However what is also clear is that, back in the 1870s the police were notoriously brutal and corrupt, and the colonial governments were quite oppressive towards poor people, people of Irish heritage such as Ned's family, and especially towards Aboriginals who were being genocided and enslaved in various parts of Australia. There was also a big class imbalance in society between poor people (often of Irish background, or convict background, or both) and the wealthy (usually of well-off English protestant background).

[@samsabastian5560]

Revoran Can you show us just once event to show that the police were corrupt? The Royal Commission held in 1881 found that the police acted with integrity regarding Kelly's criminality. I will be interested to see your evidence. Your comment that at the time the locals considered Ned Kelly a class hero. Completely wrong. The majority of the population in NE Victoria loathed the Kelly's and in particular Ned Kelly, as he was stealing from them all of the time, sending many bankrupt. Your comments reflect myths. lies and fiction.

[@agenttheater5]

which is why it was such a big deal when Ned saved the life of that other boy when they were children - a reasonably well-off English protestant family giving a son of poor Irish catholic convicts a green sash made out of silk....

[@bradwilliams7212]

Your comment that the police were brutal and corrupt is not true. Did you just make that fiction up, or did you read it in some book by a poor Kelly author. The reality was that the police were NOT brutal or corrupt in NE Victoria. I challenge you to present your evidence that the police were brutal or corrupt.

[@bradwilliams7212]

WRONG. This is what the people thought of Ned Kelly. What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@peterdel3307]

Ryan I think Ned Kelly was a hero because he always had a belief that the social inequalities of his days should be righted. He became caught up in a series of events over which he had little control, and was misunderstood in many ways 👌

[@Vespasian705]

Yeah, I don't think he grasped that a big part of the events that started the whole situation was bullying from this eras equivalent of white collar criminals. Was Ned a good man? No, I think he was a man hardened by circumstance. Was he a hero? I don't think we'll ever really know, since we can never actually meet the man. Is he an important icon for being a 'true blue' Australian? Yes, Ned is one of the great Aussie Battlers, men and women who fight through adversity and hardship of any sort. Whatever he was in reality, the legend of the Kelly Gang, however much of it is true or false, is far more important to a shared cultural identity then it is as a historical fact

[@samsabastian5560]

@@Vespasian705 You really have no idea, do you? Truth needs to be told to the children of this nation, not the fiction, myths and lies that presently dominate what is presented now. Many government departments are removing the myths right now. Even the Ned Kelly Touring Route are having the myths removed. That will show Ned Kelly for what he really was, a very serious murdering criminal.

[@Vespasian705]

@@samsabastian5560 You don't understand what a culture is do you? Fiction and myths aren't lies, they're stories that make you more than just a random collection of people who happen to share a geographic locale, without those myths and legends what makes you you, and what justifies your ethical and or morale ideals, how do you explain to someone else who you are or your parents are? Do you not understand that the mythic folk hero Ned Kelly, and the actual real world Ned Kelly aren't really the same person? Do you have the same reaction to say, Robin Hood? Actually none of the above really matters, the actual question is why are you so angry?

[@samsabastian5560]

@@Vespasian705 Truth needs to be told to the children of Australia. Ned Kelly was no better than Ivan Milat.

[@caylebmladenovic3348]

@@samsabastian5560 never compare Ned to Ivan the police officers are more comparable to Ivan

[@trevorthomas1570]

Ryan, you may find it interesting to know that the first and oldest feature film ever made was made in Australia and was about Ned Kelly. Only a small part of the film has been saved and should be available on KZbin.

[@riseofasinkingwarrior490]

Another interesting fact is the government soon introduced a ban on creating films about bushrangers. Which did incredible harm against the rising industry.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@riseofasinkingwarrior490 The government banned the film because it was a load of made up fiction, that claimed the police harassed the Kelly's. The Royal Commission found that was not true. Every film made on Ned Kelly tends to glorify him, when in fact, he was a very serious criminal and stand-over-thug.

[@zombiemeg]

Please do The Emu War! Random info: my neighbour makes Ned Kelly helmets as mailboxes. The cut out part for Ned to see through really lends itself well for mail to be put in 😂

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

It didn't happen exactly like that as the person explaining in this video about Ned Kelly. You should watch the 2003 movie of Ned kelly, played by Heath ledger. The story about Ned Kelly was more accurate than the story told here. What the guy didn't explain was Ned kelly didn't just kill police who went after him. Ned problems arose when an English policeman tried to date his sister. When he was rejected the cop raped Ned's sister. Making Ned kill the cop. Later on Ned Kelly mother was sent to prison Their was a problem with relations between the English and the Irish during Australia first settlement. Most of the 40.000 Irish convicts sent to Australia was rebelons against the English they wasn't convicts for stealing a horse or for stealing. But this guy poor knowledge of the past is going by police reports about Ned kelly and his farther. The fact was far from the truth the Victorian police had filed and covered up Ned kelly life was similar that to Billy the kid in the US. This guy telling the story about Ned Kelly is making out as he was just a villan and a cold bloody murderer. To the Victorian police yes he was. To the people who knew Ned and also witnesses of the event he wasn't. Theirs two sides of the coin written in history about Ned kelly life.

[@samsabastian5560]

Nathan007 Constable Fitzpatrick did not approach Kate Kelly at all. She made up that allegation 10 months after the event. It is fiction. With the surname Fitzpatrick, he was not English. He was Irish.

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

@@samsabastian5560 No record of that

[@davidheymer2297]

Whatever story you believe, the truth will be somewhere in between.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@davidheymer2297 There is only one truth, and that is not presented in this video at all.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@Nathan-ry3yu nedkelly.info/fitzpatrick.pdf

[@davexenos9196]

Ryan they did have newspapers back in the day

[@jennimcdonald7115]

It was called the bush telegraph. Yes word of mouth or local gossip. Lol

[@jennimcdonald7115]

Australia's Robin Hood

[@samsabastian5560]

@@jennimcdonald7115 Uninformed comment. Ned Kelly NEVER gave anything to the poor, and that often included his own family. Your comment is fictional nonsense.

[@janemcdonald5372]

How did people find out? Newspapers. They had newspapers. Some times 2 editions a day. *rolls eyes*

[@markjessop7503]

Ned Kelly is a bloody legend love his beard

[@samsabastian5560]

Mark Jessop Ned Kelly is no legend. He was a very serious murdering criminal, with no redeeming features at all.

[@bradwilliams7212]

What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@timbomb374]

"Happy Arvo" is the funniest way of saying that.

[@Vulkus]

Thanks for the view. The thing about Ned Kelly in Australia is you can love him or hate him. But you cannot ignore his place in our history. He is not on one of our bank notes now as we speak but who knows. I don't say that because I think he was right but only part of legend of a young country

[@samsabastian5560]

Vulkus If you think Ned Kelly was right, you have a lot to learn. Try reading The Kelly Gang Unmasked by Ian MacFarlane. That will put you right.

[@Vulkus]

@@samsabastian5560 Sam I did not say he was right. My point was he is unavoidable in Australian culture. And the comment about the bank notes is important because we have many white colonists who appear on our cash notes. Many, who did not regard the true Australians, the aborigines with any dignity

[@samsabastian5560]

@@Vulkus Murderers of police will never be on a bank note in Australia.

[@markhill3858]

ned was indeed huge :) he was the undefeated champion bare knuckle boxer in victoria back then :)

[@samsabastian5560]

mark hill But of course you don't know that he challenged a police officer to a fist fight and was beaten to a pulp.

[@Shepherds_Pie]

loving these!

[@pb3615]

It is a well known fact Ned was Harry Powers' bumboy. Harry would have camp fire parties and pass Young Ned around like a bong around the campfire

[@marilynlennox261]

You must be a copper.

[@pb3615]

@marilynlennox261 it's a well-known fact of history that It was a common practice in the 19th century for bushrangers to get themselves a 'boy' or 'fluffer' to keep them warm and satisfied at night. Ned would eventually get to an age that he could get a boy/fluffer of his own, a position which Steve Hart held until June 1880.

[@sconner6822]

@@pb3615 true theres an old bushranger saying up the ringer is best. And yes they used to call there Male pleasure wench the fluffer 👍

[@lukewarm2075]

8k pounds back then is worth about 1.5 mill Australian today

[@7thsealord888]

It is worth noting that Australian SF author Bertram Chandler wrote a novel called 'Kelly Country', which postulated an alternate Australia that had come about from a successful revolution led by Ned Kelly. The subsequent Australia is an advanced and powerful country under, basically, a hereditary dictatorship of Kelly's descendants.

[@samsabastian5560]

Bertram Chandler was English, not Australian. He was a Kelly fan and it shows throughout his book of fiction.

[@7thsealord888]

@@samsabastian5560 English-BORN. He had the very good taste of moving to Australia and becoming an Aussie later on.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@7thsealord888 He was 44 before he came to live in Australia.

[@7thsealord888]

@@samsabastian5560 ... And then, like many others, he became an Australian. I'm sorry, I'm unaware of a time limit being in effect here. :)

[@samsabastian5560]

@@7thsealord888 This author followed the nonsense that Ned Kelly intended to proclaim a republic in NE Victoria. That was made up by Ian Jones, a Kelly fan, and he promoted it widely. It was fiction.

[@Bronlynn23]

My daughter who is 6 was learning about Ned Kelly at school. She came home with a cardboard helmet that she wrote “Ned Kelly was a murderer” on it. I was a bit shocked they were showing that to 6yos but we have taught her that he was a bush ranger not a murderer to educate her properly.

[@samsabastian5560]

Bronwyn Barber Ned Kelly WAS a murderer. The school was presenting the truth. What sort of a parent are you, hiding the truth from your child. You are a disgrace.

[@jessbellis9510]

What kind of pro-authority "history" are they teaching nowadays?

[@bradwilliams7212]

Ned Kelly WAS a murderer. The school was teaching her the truth.

[@bradwilliams7212]

Read this and learn, sport. What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@mozpogson3639]

The police of Ned's day were mostly freed prisoners who were unethical. Ned fought against oppression from the king and police and that's why he is considered a hero.

[@samsabastian5560]

Moz Pogson Ned Kelly was NEVER considered a hero at the time he was at the height of his criminal activities. He was loathed throughout North East Victoria. Your claim that most of the police were freed prisoners, is not true. 82% of the police were of Irish blood and most were Catholics. Many had been directly recruited from police forces in Ireland. Your information is made up nonsense.

[@mozpogson3639]

@@samsabastian5560 You need to learn how to read carefully Sam. I didn't say Ned was a hero at the time, but with 32,000 people signing a petition to have him released, indicates that he was viewed as a hero then because he he fought corrupt authorities. As for freed prisoners point, you seem correct, though I did learn what I said while either in Glenrowan or Old Melbourne gaol tours. As for your point of being a catholic; so what? That is pointless.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@mozpogson3639 How wrong you are. The petition for clemency is still in possession of Records Victoria and there are about 3-4,000 genuine signatures on that petition. In NE Victoria, Kelly was despised, and the population were delighted when he was finally brought down at Glenrowan. There was considerable animosity between Protestants and Catholics in the UK. Not so much in Victoria, but it is claimed to be an issue. No doubt you were listening to people who promote Ned Kelly as some sort of hero, instead of presenting him as the serious criminal that he was.

[@mozpogson3639]

@@samsabastian5560 Sam you are wrong about your assumption of me. I look at both sides of the argument. It seems you focus on his crimes, of which, some are self defence, but Glenrowan was not self defence. Focus on only 1 side is unbalanced.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@mozpogson3639 Self defence? Where? Ned Kelly never acted in self-defence. If you are claiming self-defence, at Stringybark Creek, you are wrong. Ned Kelly murdered both Lonigan and Scanlan without him giving either of them an opportunity to defend themselves or surrender, as the evidence shows. The police party had handcuffs to secure their prisoners. You have been conned, sport. Read facts, not fiction in future.

[@_Ducker]

you can visit the hotel in glenworen you can aslo see the railway track they attempted to sabotage. it is really nice and i recomend it for any one. in glenwrowen there is aslo ned kelly themed everthing shops, info centers and even pools. Ned Kelly aslo has a few movies better explaing the event, but in glenwrowen they have live re-inactments wich explains the stuuf that the dont go into full deatail in the movies

[@samsabastian5560]

All things HOLDEN Can you please write in English next time you comment.

[@maxrussell7364]

The shoot out took place at the Ann Jones Inn which was destroyed when the police set fire to it to flush the Kelly gang out.It is now just a vacant block of land.

[@markhill3858]

yes .. ned was a BLOODY HERO and always will be down here :)

[@bradwilliams7212]

Only to the ignorant, Mark. Is that where you fit?

[@markhill3858]

@@bradwilliams7212 Afraid so .. my dad helped build sovereign hill so I know something about Oz history .. and Kelly family history. So brand me all the ignorant you like :) it doesnt change history.

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@markhill3858 History has not changed, BUT the myths, lies and fiction that has been written by pro Kelly authors has done a lot of damage to the TRUE history. You would do well to read the true history and learn that what you believe is a load of fictitious rubbish.

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@markhill3858 What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@mort8143]

Kelly's armour was made from old ploughshares. It repelled bullets. I grew up near Tatong in NE Victoria, about 30min drive from the Stringybark tree. Cheers.

[@TGTB1234]

12:55 When it comes too Ned the "shooting inaccurately!" Is the very move you see in every picture with him in it! It's like a sinicher pose a "statement!" As one would say!

[@yvonnejohnson3232]

I remember seeing Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly. He had a broad Irish accent. But Ned Kelly was born in Victoria not Ireland.

[@aaronf1078]

Black trackers are called that because they are trackers who are black. Pretty self explanatory😂

[@bennichols1113]

burning the mortgages was a huge move. This was more politics than just crime.

[@bradwilliams7212]

Burning the mortgages did what? NOTHING. There were several copies of those mortgages. You are talking BS.

[@bennichols1113]

@@bradwilliams7212 whatever tard

[@megancooper859]

Considering back then the majority of low class people were former or second generation convicts, yes police were opressive and hard handed. It was an iron helmet and body armour he was wearing, heavy but stopped bullets. Except for his legs😔

[@samsabastian5560]

Megan Cooper The Royal Commission found that the police acted with integrity towards the Kelly's. What you have stated is not true.

[@megancooper859]

@@samsabastian5560 you mean the 1881 royal commission? The one that lead to a lot of changes to the way Victorian police operated? What I have said stands, the police of the day were oppressive and heavy handed.

[@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax]

@@samsabastian5560 Are you a cop? You keep adding this to all of your not needed replies. He was a hero and will forever be a hero like it or not.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@megancooper859 Can you tell us then what changes were made by police as a result of the commission? If you claim the police were oppressive, can you present us with just one incident that you refer to?

[@samsabastian5560]

@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax NO, I am not a police officer. If you think Ned Kelly was some sort of hero, you have been misled. If you claim he was a hero, please present some evidence to support your view. The people of North East Victoria at the time loathed Kelly and were relieved when the gang was finally finished off at Glenrowan.

[@jaykingsun7093]

Ned was an expert marksman. He just could not see very well out of his helmet.

[@marionharris5674]

We also had a legend of the Yowie, a bit like your Bigfoot x

[@timeless712]

Basically Ned is Australia’s Robin Hood, he is a legend

[@stopbunsen]

When I was a kid I had a picture of Ned Kelly on my bedroom wall lol

[@charliekezza]

A few of the bushrangers were absolute gentleman, very Robin hood like. Rob from the rich but not the poor and that was part of the reason the bushrangers were liked. Not all of them were so nice and Ned wasn't but that was the feelings of the people at the time

[@samsabastian5560]

Kez C How dumb are you? Ned Kelly, like all criminals, did not care who he robbed from. As there were a great deal of settlers in the Greta area, he concentrated on stealing their only work horses, effectively leaving them bankrupt. You need to wake up to reality, sport.

[@bradwilliams7212]

What a delusional, stupid comment. Crooks rob from anyone they can.

[@looking8030]

Neds a hero over here many people love him real aussies do anyways

[@samsabastian5560]

Jak Kidd Heroes do not murder people, Jak. Ned Kelly was a very serious criminal, end of story.

[@looking8030]

@@samsabastian5560 yeah well some people deserve that and don’t you forget it

[@samsabastian5560]

@@looking8030 Real Aussies know Ned Kelly was a vicious stand-over-thug and a murdering criminal. Don't you forget that.

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@looking8030 What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@overworlder]

The video guy pronounced clerk the American way. The Anglo-Australian pronunciation is ‘clark’. But since the word isn’t used much anymore, fair enough.

[@overworlder]

Draconic also isn’t a word, other than a made-up one for dragon language. He means ‘draconian’.

[@overworlder]

‘Tyrannism’ isn’t word (sb tyranny).

[@overworlder]

‘Tyrannism of English yolk’? Tyranny of the English yoke.

[@4kays160]

And yes his inch thick helmet and chest and back piece forged from a horse trough was easily bulletproof versus a musket and revolvers..

[@samsabastian5560]

4kays Try 6mm thick.

[@shannonfriedel7101]

We are Australian, last year when my daughter was 13/14 yr old. She had to do an English assignment on ned kelly. The perimeters where, was he a villan, victim or hero. Her view point was victim. (I thimk) she got an A for her essay

[@samsabastian5560]

shannon friedel Ned Kelly was never a victim. His victims were the people Kelly oppressed. Tell your daughter to read The Kelly Gang Unmasked by Ian MacFarlane. A book that tells the truth.

[@davidheymer2297]

@@samsabastian5560 whether he is victim, villain or hero is a matter of perspective, just like it is today, one persons dictator, is anothers hero.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@davidheymer2297 It's not a matter of perspective at all. It's a matter of facts. There are very few facts displayed in this video at all.

[@caylebmladenovic3348]

@@samsabastian5560 why do you keep mentioning a book that is known as fiction and highly regarded by most credible historians as completely fabricated

[@samsabastian5560]

@@caylebmladenovic3348 That book is recognised by professional historians as being almost 100% accurate. You could not present any part of that book that contains a semblance of fiction. It is all factual to the letter. I challenge you to present your evidence that the book is in any part fiction.

[@bhsaproduction]

Ned Kelly’s suit of armour was more than just a head covering. The steel suit included a helmet, chest plate, back plate, shoulder covers and an apron that covered the groin and upper legs. This was almost 97 lb (44 kg) of weight. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_of_the_Kelly_gang

[@jamessmithsaltyarmy5210]

Well done.. You are doing great :) Thank you

[@nathanvanduiven5728]

Ned Kelly got the idea for his armour from the ironclads in the American Civil War.

[@kirk5152]

A criminal with the last name Kelly. Seems to be hot topic this week. 😂

[@eliassolomou980]

Compared to the actions of the Victorian police both past and present? The man was a saint. One need only look at how the cops acted during the lockdown

[@bradwilliams7212]

The Royal Commission held in 1881 found the police acted properly in dealing with the extensive criminality of the Kelly clan.

[@eliassolomou980]

@@bradwilliams7212 did said commission comment on said police inequities that led to said actions? You and I both know the police threw its weight around in nefarious deeds against the community that pushed many to revolt.

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@eliassolomou980 How wrong you are. The majority of settlers in rural Victoria were very supportive of their local police. Most of the police were recruited directly from Ireland and had families that fitted in well with the community. None of the decent, honest settlers were revolting. It was only the thieving Kelly clan and his associates that were revolting, because they wanted to be left to carry on their thieving ways. You have no idea of the situation in NE Victoria, do you?

[@eliassolomou980]

@@bradwilliams7212 try reading the history of the Kelly family and you'll understand instead of generalising. I was in Victoria long enough with army to see how the police there acted towards the public in general. How many times was their leadership publicly forced to apologise? How many times did investigations expose them? Yes it happened in nsw and qld too and that's in modern times, can you imagine 150 years ago with the free hand they had and the lack of systems, training and accountability?

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@eliassolomou980 My comments are confined to Victoria police during Ned Kelly's reign of terror. So let's look at the Kelly family. John (Red) Kelly was a convicted thief and for his second offence of stealing two pigs in Ireland, and taking them to another town market to sell for money, he was transported for 7 years. Ellen Quinn, later Kelly, grew up in an extensive criminal family, who were part of a massive criminal enterprise across NE Victoria. She had criminal convictions and encouraged her son to learn how to rob from none other than Harry Power. Dan Kelly was a little thug who also had convictions as a young teenager. Her last son, James was gaoled on several occasions for horse theft. Most of Ellen's daughters were complicit in the thieving enterprise of their brother Ned Kelly, and their actions were certainly criminal. So let's face it, the Kelly's were well known as a family of criminals, and who were avoided by the decent honest people living in the district. By the way, I was also in the army, as an officer.

[@liandren]

I have a bust of Ned at home. it was cast from his death mask. you can see eyebrows and the kink in his neck. He's sitting on my mantelpiece wearing a pair of sunnies and an aviators cap. I also have The Wild colonial Boy, Mad Dog Morgan and Captain Moonlight.

[@deanmaynard8256]

The armour was made from plowshares and was VERY thick - and yes Ned was a big man!

[@aaronf1078]

Big in circumstance but deffinately not tall like pictured in the illustration, he was only 5’8”

[@deanmaynard8256]

@@aaronf1078 I have read all kinds of heights - from 5'8' to 6' ! but that's not what I meant - I was referring to him having an imposing physique and presence.

[@mrgoono9264]

5' 9" according to his prison record but this was when he was 15/16 years old so he may have had some growing to do. He was said to be 6' tall only when wearing his lariken boots (cuban heals) which are high healed riding boots.

[@samsabastian5560]

Dean Maynard Ned Kelly's prison record states Kelly was 5' 10" tall. He was not big. Go see his armour in the State Library, Melbourne. It is quite small and would not fit a man 6 feet tall.

[@janhegarty5268]

Every Irish Australian family has a story that they are related to the Kelly gang. Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly,Joe Hart and Steve Byrne.

[@bct8881]

Iron Man Mk1

[@irischallinger8029]

Ned Kelly is an Aussie legend. Such is life

[@filipinorutherford7818]

I live in Canberra Australia but my grandparents lived in Melbourne so once or twice a year our family did a road trip down to Melbourne to visit them. One time we drove through Glenrowan the place where the Kelly Gang had their final battle in the armour. There is a giant statue of Ned Kelly in the town. Australian's love putting up giant Bannana's, Merino Sheep, Prawns etc etc for tourism sake. We went into a touristy area and they had sone cool colouring books which also told the story of Ned Kelly which we bought. Me and my two brothers also bought these cool metal key ring replicas of Ned Kelly's pistols which also could fire caps. This 5 caps for each gun where annoying for mum and Dad as we fired them in the car while we drove, not ver loud but annoying all the same. We where like 10, 10 and 6 at the time and we where mesmerised by the story and we coloured in the Ned Kelly scenes in the book as we drove to Melbourne. I was fascinated with the Ned Kelly story for years afterwards and kept the little pistol for years but finally lost it, which annoyed me... it was small. You should look up the Eureka Stockade Rebellion which plays on the story of common folk fighting oppressive authorities.

[@briantayler1230]

The reason that you could not convert the money is that Australian money did not exist before 1901. The five hundred pounds was Pounds Stirling and its value today is $77,000 US.

[@greghillier5176]

Ned Kelly's Armour is on display in the Victoria State Library.

[@gavinfoster8607]

Ryan, the "bucket" didn't have to hold up against an AK47.

[@L-K-Jellyfish]

Oh that was fun to watch your reaction to this story. As is often the case with folk heroes, facts never get in the way of a good yarn! My great grandfather was on that train that the Kelly Gang was going to attack. At the time Australia was very much divided along sectarian lines: the British protestants and the Irish Catholics.

[@kasidypower8777]

His armour was extremely difficult to move around in and very heavy but it was made frame farm ploughs which made the bullet bounce off

[@erinmccabe1984]

On that list was for this video was one on "The Emu Wars". You need to watch that !!

[@drblack66]

opened many eyes back in the day to corrupt oppression, hence why he still remains an icon in australia

[@allangoodger969]

8,000 pounds is worth AU$1.3 million. You have to remember that the indigenous people had to survive in the bush by hunting animals by following their tracks (tracking). So tracking a human or horse was natural to them.

[@looking8030]

No it’s not. it’s about $500,000 because £500 in 1880 is worth $15,000 todays money Australian. I think you looked at the American inflation site

[@looking8030]

@UC_ahYzIfzhKfeyCda5bMAnw the one I seen only from the reserve bank of Australia RBA goes back to early 1901 but I seen another yesterday on his first video that done £500 to roughly $15,000 of todays money when I looked it up and you can do the math of that and also have a look through the first part of this videos and you will see a lot of people commenting saying roughly $15,000 todays money aswell

[@danielponiatowski7368]

somone commented on peter lalor, thats a good story, the gold field rebellion. if it helps there were a number of californians fighting with our guys at the stockade. lalor had a massive bounty on his head after the battle but could walk around in public after he recovered from wounds, no one would give him up and woe betide any who thought to.

[@diamondcat08]

Any person who has attended an Australian school has learned about Ned Kelly and painted or drawn a picture of Ned Kelly on his horse at least once 😂

[@samsabastian5560]

Not true.

[@ElectricTsunami]

So when are ya moving here mate?

[@dranzacspartan8002]

Ned Kelly is a hero mate. He is known for his last words ... "Such is life" (modern day ... WTF).

[@samsabastian5560]

DrANZAC Spartan How wrong you are. Ned Kelly never uttered those words. They were made up by a journalist to embellish his story.

[@dranzacspartan8002]

@@samsabastian5560 Sorry ... were you there? It's popular knowledge that Ned Kelly uttered those words ... sited in many journals. You weren't there, neither was I, so give it up mate. You have your indoctrinated opinion, and I have mine. Grab yourself a Coopers, a couple of snags from the Barbie, and just enjoy the views from our Country. Go piss somewhere else.

[@bradwilliams7212]

What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@kennethbell-hn9zv]

Ned was the original Robin Hood.

[@LM-ed1op]

Aussie LEGEND & Hero 🇦🇺😊❤️🇦🇺

[@timbomb374]

I can't speak on the goals and morals of Ned but he sure as hell left his mark on history.

[@samsabastian5560]

Tim Bomb Ned Kelly was just a very serious murdering criminal. It is pro Kelly authors who have glorified this vicious, murdering criminal. Fortunately, that attitude is being change right now, as more and more books are written showing exactly just what a low life he really was.

[@darneyoung537]

The country is divided whether he’s a hero or not.

[@samsabastian5560]

Darne young The facts clearly show he was just a serious criminal.

[@bradwilliams7212]

REALLY? Only ignorant fools think Ned Kelly is a hero.

[@trixyalston1904]

Happy arvo what the hell it's good afternoon

[@kayekaye4251]

There is a movie made with Mick Jaggar in it back in the 70's called ...yep you guessed it Ned Kelly Lol Aussie hero

[@bradwilliams7212]

What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@johnharris7059]

The armour was made from plough shares a weighed as much as 85 lbs, not out of buckets as you suggested. He proof shot the armour to prove its strength

[@kennethbell6912]

Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Each apparent victim contributed to the changes

[@brentdavis3102]

Here's a more in-depth account of Ned Kelly's story. kzbin.info/www/bejne/javEdKp6dryUZrc And of course watching the movie may give you a better idea about him and the reasons behind his actions. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iou6d6qVYriEl7c Facts about the Armour used. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpfaZH17pdV-qdk

[@TabJH]

Ned Kelly.... A HERO to alot of us.

[@bradwilliams7212]

Only to the dills, who believe fictitious rubbish. Is that you?

[@bradwilliams7212]

What did the people of NE Victoria really think of Ned Kelly and his criminal associates. Read this and learn. Go to the place that describes two eyes a nose and a mouth and look for Ned Kelly False Icon and read the first article. Written in 1878. That is what the people REALLY thought of Ned Kelly.

[@4kays160]

A pound back then was called a pound because it was worth 1 pound of silver, 1 pound of silver today is about $500... 2000 pounds is about a million dollars today

[@deanmaynard8256]

the hat strap under the nose was a Greta Mob affectation that they did for photos. Like Home Boys only doing up the top button of the shirt or wearing trousers low

[@dorothycooper8745]

You gotta see about the outlaw ostrich man in South Australia he was sooooo out there literally rode the ostrich with jewel encrusted guns robbing carriages his loot was never found