Ned Kelly - Lies - Extra History

[@extrahistory]

Time for Lies! We do our best to answer your questions (and correct our mistakes) about Ned Kelly! Support Extra History on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ExtraCredits Listen to the Ned Kelly theme music, "Farewell to Greta:" kzbin.info/www/bejne/goHKhHyaarVpsKc Check out this gorgeous poster made by series artist, David Hueso! www.patreon.com/posts/series-art-ned-9387117

[@dukeofasg3280]

Extra Credits Ayy! You got 1M subs!

[@lavenderlavenders8537]

So fast? CONGRATS. Wait... who was the 1 millionth subscriber? It was walpole

[@raptonsoul2557]

Extra Credits do the greeco-Italian war next! it's base in ww2

[@1nown]

As an Australian, I think there's one last fascinating thing this video misses; Ned Kelly invented the Feature Film. Okay, maybe not Ned himself, but the first feature-length film was 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' in 1906. Having a hour-long film was until then unheard of. Some of the footage miraculously survived and there was a restoration of part (about a quarter) of the film. To further highlight the disputed legacy, it was banned in 'Kelly Country' and Victoria actually banned ALL bushranger films six years later for 'glorifying violance' and such. There have of course been a whole bunch of Ned Kelly films, some of which are kinda nuts. Imagine Mick Jagger playing an aussie crim. Yeah, that was a thing in 1970. Go figure.

[@robertwalpole360]

Got me there! ;)

[@matthewtrujillo7228]

I imagine that only one bush exist in Australia and Ned always jumps into it whenever he's being chased.

[@ems3991]

Nah, he pulled a Sean Spicer. He wasn't hiding *in* the bushes, he was hiding *among* the bushes. ;)

[@silvertheelf]

😂

[@thesupertsar4473]

I planted a bush and was executed on the spot by a kangaroo with a fully loaded emu

[@nabilrise1551]

🤣Thanks for the laugh

[@keimori6006]

I never thought I'd honestly utter the sentence "hurray, 40 minutes of lies!"

[@powerstrike864]

And i didnt so

[@wukongamatics2748]

Ned is controversial yes, but by god the cops and rich squatters were complete jerks

[@Darkstar1484]

@@jlord9638 The issue is that even if they were benevolent they were beneficiaries of a bad system. Sure they may have been better but they were still ultimately building much of their wealth on the backs of others who they had extremely disproportionate power over.

[@samsabastian5560]

Wukangamatics Mostly the police were good family men who were well respected in the towns where they were stationed, as they kept their towns free from the thieving Kelly's. There were no squatters in the Greta area at the time of the Kelly outbreak. Now how about removing your fiction and accept that you know nothing about Ned Kelly and his criminal ways.

[@marsgo8938]

@@samsabastian5560 Proof please

[@elyria9788]

@@jlord9638 Yeeeah where'd you hear of your family's benevolence? Does the answer rhyme with your family?

[@aristosachaion_]

@@samsabastian5560 Funny how when someone asks you for proof of your claims, you're nowhere to be found.

[@sidneybowden7531]

I think my favourite line about Ned Kelly is Australian Singer/Songwriter Pat Drummond's comment that "Ned Kelly got into trouble firstly because he was poor and Irish. If he was around in 1990 Ned Kelly would be Fairfield Vietnamese."

[@natetuimaseve7426]

The metal was so heavy that they couldn't raise their arms in the suit. What do you think adding more metal to their legs would have done jackass? BTW i just gotta say wow to your name, the most stereotypical white douche bag first name with the most stereotypical Vietnamese last name.

[@jimboblordofeskimos]

You have obviously never been to fairfield.

[@nothingomucho106]

? . deleted comments?

[@samsabastian5560]

Ned Kelly got into trouble because he was a criminal. Nothing to do with his ethnic origin.

[@sharilshahed6106]

@@samsabastian5560 did you even watch the series? He got in to trouble cause his family was poor, exploited and persecuted, like many others by rich squatters and corrupt police before he actually became a criminal.

[@TomKellyXY]

Crime isn't that hereditary. Hey, what would I know, I just turned out to be a Geneticist instead of a criminal. Not bad for one of the Kelly clan :-)

[@lizluvnbluv6535]

Poopy pants

[@lizluvnbluv6535]

Ned kelly is died guys

[@silvertheelf]

Liz luvnbluv “Ned Kelly is died guys” Died... do you mean dead? His spirit is forever alive.

[@ninepuchar1]

Ned......😔❄

[@ianthecoolthief6226]

Dude, Ned got his own movie. A 1980's one and a 2003 reboot.

[@fnj9567]

I love how passionate she is! Great series as per usual

[@samsabastian5560]

FNJ Except she talks a load of rubbish.

[@hmcloud8487]

"I don't make mistakes, I make investments".

[@ratbones9156]

"I don't make mistakes, I make MONEY from the extra videos".

[@razenoid1554]

I dont make mistakes i make happy little accidents

[@shayneoneill1506]

Its a bit of an australian tradition to be sneaky hoping the outlaw makes it. There was a modern bank robber Brendon Abbot, aka "The postcard bandit"who was basically a master criminal who would pull off outrageously complicated bank heists, and when he'd get caught, he'd break back out again and continue. While on the run , he'd supposedly send postcard pictures to cops of where he was (although that might be a popular myth). Unfortunately for him , he wont be eligible for parole until 2020, and then likely be deported back to west australia where he'll face a whole new set of charges. The guy aint walking free until he's an old man, but I dont believe he ever murdered anyone ( I think ). As a result a lot of australians believe hes been unfairly treated for political reasons as he had made a mockery of the police and government with his skills. In Australia its customary to serve multiple sentences concurrently, but the WA govt would not let him come back to WA until his queensland sentence was over. As a result he couldn't serve those sentences concurrently, and a lot of people thought that was an abuse of process. We like our anti-heros down here.

[@jimboblordofeskimos]

In a general sense, we do like our anti heroes and quietly hoping some bloke who didnt do anything too horrible gets away if he runs is another very australian thing. Saying that something is stupid when someone calls it a bit of a tradition, when it is indeed part of the general tradition is rather overblown.

[@Hyenadont]

Just tossing my 2 cents here, but if it means flipping the bird to politics or authoritarian figures we'll usually happily talk up a criminal as a hero-ish figure. Claiming it as tradition might be claiming too much, but it's sure as bloody hell part of our culture.

[@poshboy4749]

Ned Kelly, Breaker Morant and Chopper Reid are all national heroes/convicted criminals. The ANZAC tradition, which is what we base a great deal of our national identity on, is tied up with the idea of antiestablishmentarianism. Finally, there is a movement in Australia that has existed for quite a while that's wants to make 'Waltzing Matilda'', a folk song glorifying a suicidal sheep thief, into our national anthem. If that doesn't prove that we idealise criminals I don't know what does.

[@poshboy4749]

I'm sorry if I gave the impression I believed in the myth of the ANZACs - I don't (I'm a WWI nerd and the whole Blackadder, Lions led by donkeys thing has always annoyed me) . My point was that most people do and that we based our cultural identity on the tea sipping myth not the historical fact. We as a society have been taught that our nation was birthed in the betrayal of the common man by the toffs(whether they where Australian or British). Stories like Ned Kelly and the Eureka Rebellion support that idea and builds this culture of supporting the underdog and tall poppy syndrome that you can see throughout the whole of Australian culture. Waltzing Matilda plays it's part in that and remains a well known song to this day; thought I will concede to you and agree that is unlikely to ever be our Anthem. Just to nitpick though the officer might be Australian but he considers himself a proud servant of the British Empire, and the movie considers that a bad thing. Of course had he been a real person he, like many colonials of the time, probably would have referred to himself as British.

[@jimboblordofeskimos]

besides the firearm laws, port arthur didnt have any real long term effects. The rewriting was a big deal at the time, but despite the piffle bandied about about australia being disarmed, guns are still very common, the thing is, that unlike america, guns here for most people are tools and as a tool, there isnt much you cant get done with a bolt action you cant do with a semi auto.

[@TheArtsyshep]

It's not often that I watch the whole of a lies video through- them usually being half an hour to 45 minute long, but I just couldn't tear myself away from this video. Really fascinating!

[@vincentle6003]

Shame Ned couldn't protect us from spiders and other deadly things from Australia

[@extrahistory]

Ned put the spiders there to make sure Australians grew up tough and unafraid.

[@legionxiii8055]

Vincent Le If Ned was alive during the Emu Wars, it would be an unstoppable force vs very fast highly experienced animal army with great tactics... It would be a bloodbath.

[@vincentle6003]

It would be a pretty great game/movie

[@mrelephant2283]

imagine the Ned kelly film featuring Heath ledger but it;s the Emu war with ww2 era fighters planes and equipment and it had the Kelly gang fight off a combined forces of Emu's and Japanese while riding war dolphins

[@vincentle6003]

Mikey Reid : MS paint 11/10 ign would play/watch again

[@JackgarPrime]

James looking like the world's happiest vampire in all that black!

[@_Nat3345]

40+ minutes of Extra History!?! No way!

[@robertwalpole360]

Yes, way! ;)

[@commandervex1626]

Walpole...what did you do this time...

[@robertwalpole360]

I'm not telling. ;)

[@anxiousandworrying1]

the thing your missing in the characterization of the squatocracy, is the role the convict system played in helping them establish their holdings, this is less true in Victoria (they had exiles rather than convicts), but generaly these people were having labour provided to them by the state from about the 1820's to the end of transportation a few decades later. So often the hard work building those estates was done by convicts and for little more than rations who would be discharged from their sentence with sweet fuck all. Add to that the fact that the initial core group of squaters often came to the colony connected (In New South Wales, most of the first group were drawn from the officers of the, laughably corrupt, Military garrison). So we have good reason not to rate the hard work they put in.

[@matthewtrujillo7228]

Fun fact the first guy Ned ever killed, Constable Lonigan was the same guy that grabbed his nethers in the store brawl and the man Ned vowed to be his first kill.

[@brianharris2530]

7:57-7:59. I'd say that's a fair point but I believe you could use that statement for another person he shot and killed. Everyone has family waiting for them. But the police in Victoria were very corrupt and the Kellys were under constant investigation because of the wealthier squatters paying the police to investigate them or other poorer squatters. The way I see it is a man fighting against a very corrupt system his entire life. However, I do not commend him for plotting to derail the police train that I believe was a little too far but as Ned Kelly himself put it. "Such is life."

[@suskaklapp6641]

Ned never said such is life.

[@kayrilzendergor]

I love this show so much. Thanks for making it, and thanks to all patreon backers for supporting it.

[@KopeAcetic]

Awesome to see you Soraya, incredible job on this series, thank you SO much!

[@KopeAcetic]

also 35:25 - probably one of my favorite moments from this interview :D.

[@ArdisMeade]

That bit about wearing the green silk sash made me tear up and almost cry. That was just so sad.

[@jeremysaklad6703]

Well done, Soraya! This series was impressively researched, especially considering how subjective all the information around Ned Kelly tends to be.

[@virgilpopovici1443]

Extra Credits has just reached a milion subscribers!Congratulations!

[@wingracer1614]

And congratulations on a million subscribers. You all have earned it. The quality and awesomeness of this channel is hard to beat.

[@kingofthejungle3833]

@5:00 the "Australian" gold miners were in fact Irish emigrants, who were protesting against prohibitive mining licence fees and fines. Ned's ancestry was Irish, the police were predominantly English and allegedly corrupt. Ned took up bushranging because he was accused of (convicted and jailed for) horse theft because he unwittingly and unknowingly bought a stolen horse, from there on the police hounded him, for that reason (even though he served his time and attempted to earn an honest living after his release), and the fact that he was Red Kelly's son.

[@LordDragon1965]

Intentional errors are something like the small weaving errors that the Persians put in to their rugs because only God makes things that are perfect.

[@paullytle1904]

Alan Lambert do you mean amish

[@LordDragon1965]

paul lytle Actually, it's true for both groups on opposite sides of the world

[@paullytle1904]

Alan Lambert that's so cool I didn't realize that thanks

[@Razzanonymous]

Armenian gravestone makers have the same philosophy. They make sure to make the gravestone look symmetrical from left to right, but at closer inspection, they leave tiny but visible errors making sure it isn't perfectly symmetrical.

[@siobhanevevans]

Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺!! You did such a great job explaining and expanding on your series about Ned Kelly.

[@elijahs7374]

So proud of my favorite KZbin channel earning its first 1 million subscribers! Great work guys, I look forward to more quality content!

[@historycenter4011]

That explains why they are called Bushrangers.

[@petercohen3966]

To range: "to move with complete freedom around a large area" (Macmillan). The Australian Bush: synonymous with backwoods, outback and hinterland and referring to a natural undeveloped area, the fauna and flora contained within. [essentially the large forested areas between the major cities... "the bush" ... "goin' bush"... "bushman"... etc]

[@twarnold14]

Can someone do a fighting game with characters from Extra History? Like even in the Extra Credits style? Just a small one. Throwing it out there...

[@Halinspark]

Tyler Arnold Would that make Walpole the character that changed movesets every match? Like Mokujin from Tekken.

[@VladamirInhaler]

Love the Extra History series, and as an Aussie I particularly appreciated the Ned Kelly series - as did my 7 year old twin boys who'd learned a little from school recently. You occasionally do singles episodes, and if you're up for another Aussie one to fill a gap, perhaps you'd consider the Eureka Stockade?

[@deanphilipsaunders775]

As a Victorian, I grew up learning about Ned Kelly and visited all the places he went too. Not only that, but my daughter is a relative of him.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

I think you're too harsh on Ned for killing cops. The police were basically enemy combantants and oppressors. It wasn't organized, but it was rebellion. Now if he was killing his hostages, who he treated very well in reality, that would be a problem.

[@kylecampbell6715]

Thank you for acknowledging aboriginal people as the original owners of the land. Even in 2017 (current year argument) there are large parts of Australian society that do not recognise that fact, Pretty cool that people from the other side of the world recognise it.

[@devinobrien9241]

kyle campbell When did they do that?

[@HolyTurtleOfDoom]

Literally everyone recognises it...that's not the real issue.

[@OriginalPiMan]

Dravatis Every assembly? I don't think it was ever mentioned in assembly at the schools I went to in the 90s and 00s (not even as a "we recognise the original occupants of this land" that you see sometimes) It was taught in school, but directly by my teachers rather than in assembly.

[@davidgold3nrose]

OriginalPiMan I've been at school since 2005 and they've always done that.

[@OriginalPiMan]

Government events do here too, and some other events I'm sure, but not my school assemblies. Heck, for all I know schools are now doing it here too. I just haven't been to a school assembly in over a decade. (I'm in Melbourne, by the way)

[@theDevintage]

Despite already knowing of this story, it's still my favourite series second only to (and only just barely) the Justinian series (I can't believe I hadn't heard of him). Also, this is a nice format of Lies. Well done!

[@paigemurphy3437]

Devintage I +

[@crimson-foxtwitch2581]

As explained in one of the first episodes, the broken financial system explains why I view Ned Kelly as a dark hero that changed Australia forever. This is why "Farewell to Greta" is such an awesome song, even if Ned Kelly did make some mistakes along the way.

[@samsabastian5560]

Crimson, Maybe you could explain to us just how Ned Kelly changed Australia forever?

[@AegixDrakan]

I love how "What a scoop" has become a new EC brand meme. XD

[@antoniolukovic3112]

I felt that the Story of Ned Kelly is not about the man himself, but about the nature of the culture and the effectiveness of the judiciary during his time. Kelly, no matter how you want to spin it, was an outlaw and a dangerous man (be it at own choice or due to circumstance). The fact that such a person was so praised by some goes to show how dissatisfied they were by the laws under which they lived, and more specifically by the ineffectiveness and/or corruption by those that were supposed to serve them. So, as EC beautifully described in their video, the question is not so much "Who was Ned Kelly", but rather "Why was Ned Kelly who he was".

[@samsabastian5560]

Antoio Lukovic The only ones that objected to the laws as they were, were criminals. The vast majority of people living in Victoria were decent, law abiding citizens.

[@hart-of-gold]

One thing I would add is because the police hunt for Ned in Victoria was so intense for a couple of years. Jerilderie where he wrote the second letter is far away in New South Wales, which at the time was a separate colony. It was chosen because it was very isolated, its about fifty kilometres to the next town in any direction and far enough from the border that the security was less. Where Ned operated, for the most part, was the Victorian hinderland south of the Murray river which was a major thoroughfare and forms the border between the 2 colonies.

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

15:22 The longest 'Fuck the police' I've ever heard

[@chriswashingtonbeats]

Congrats on 1 MILLION !

[@ChloeAriT]

So you mean to tell mean much of the police force originally came to Australia as criminals?

[@theredrighthandproductions]

Earven Unsurprising, given how corrupt they seemed to be

[@samsabastian5560]

NO. Most police were free settlers, and 82% of the police in Victoria were of Irish descent and most were Catholic.

[@Darkstar1484]

Yeah, I know to think that criminals would degenerate so badly, it's a tragedy really

[@marsgo8938]

@@samsabastian5560 proof please.

[@Meloncov]

I realize this is my fault for not paying attention to the credits, but this was the first time I realized James didn't write all of Extra History. Great work Soraya!

[@pinklmaonade]

The detail about the green scarf was humanizing and I agree that perhaps Ned would have been a better person without certain circumstances.

[@tzisorey]

There's actually an Australian boardgame called Squatter. it's basically Monopoly, where your goal is to gain pasture, and instead of utilities, you buy prized breeding rams. I had a copy of it on the Commodore64 way-back-when. was an odd game, came on a floppy disk, but also had a cartridge, which I always assumed was purpose built hardware for randomising the dice rolls.

[@boilerman8380]

Thanks, from an Aussie for your Ned Kelly episodes. As usual I learnt more than previously known. Love your work.

[@samsabastian5560]

Boilerman What is displayed here is a load of fictitious nonsense.

[@crispybacon4240]

Looks like you guys just hit a million. Congrats!

[@KyleRayner12]

If crime were hereditary, there'd be a more direct Walpole connection.

[@CrusaderAmerica]

Wait... look at the subscriber count.... LOOK AT THE SUBSCRIBER COUNT!! Congrats Extra Credits for hitting 1 million. You have earned it!

[@levilukeskytrekker]

Fantastic video! And congrats on one million!

[@phelanii4444]

1. Yay for 40+ mind of extra history! 2. James, on the thumbnail, you look like they cut you out of a baroque painting 3. Congrats on 1million! Well deserved! 😄

[@square721bt]

Best series since South Seas Bubble, you guys are knocking it dead.

[@benhbook]

Happy million subs!

[@321cheesedude96]

Congratulations on 1,000,000 subscribers!!!

[@waleedkhalid7486]

This is so much more relevant now in 2020...

[@DavidChipman]

Ned's lawyer sounds like "My Cousin Vinny"!

[@extrahistory]

Except Vinny came through in the end. ;)

[@DavidChipman]

Point taken.

[@bjminyard563]

Ned Kelly and the Power Rangers

[@joluoto]

Sounds like rock group

[@nothingomucho106]

BJ Minyard Power BUSHranger

[@sharilshahed6106]

@@nothingomucho106 go go bushie rangers

[@quailsinspace]

15:23 and the award for most long winded insult goes to...

[@rainmanslim4611]

Ned was an honest man who was just pushed too damn far till right at the end, when he'd finally "snapped" But he was a good man. All he wanted was a fair go. But he was always denied it

[@anttibjorklund1869]

That insult towards the police (big-bellied, wombat-faced... etc).... I must remember that for future use XD

[@AgentTasmania]

But wombats have very cute faces.

[@emmakatenotcake]

AgentTasmania Not if they're chasing you, they don't.

[@C19J99]

Us Aussies have WAY too many insults for the police :') Even our police don't like the police very much, it's in our convict blood

[@n-Chantreuse]

When was the last time you were chased by a wombat?

[@emmakatenotcake]

M Parker As a kid. Old wombats are pretty cranky, and they're faster than they look. Had a mate also get chased into a river when he was camping once, and it swam after him. They'll definitely have a go if you're around/have been around a dog.

[@ingonyama70]

To sum up: In England - it was Walpole. In Australia - it was Kelly. Sound right?

[@roachman6134]

CONGRATS ON 1 MILLION SUBS

[@Pivotteen465]

I wish this channel got more attention

[@lielbouskila9853]

Hey, you reached a million subs!! congrats!!!!

[@ThisChannel1]

One of the things I find most interesting about these episodes is finding out what stuff they left out or made incorrect on purpose for the sake of clarity for the audience

[@samsabastian5560]

This Channel Most of this video is fiction, through and through

[@TheGoryan]

15:17 The Scotsman (from Samurai Jack) is proud

[@LazyVik05]

Happy 1,000,000 Subscribers Extra Credits

[@minch333]

Soraya's a proper expert! Also considering she wrote it, she's a pretty good writer too. Oh and yeah, the Walpole connection is probably the weakest yet, but fuck me, even finding this connection goes to show how the Walpoles were just everywhere.

[@kyuven]

The background music is bringing on my Final Fantasy XI nostalgia...

[@m654z]

Congratulations on 1 million subscribers :)

[@jl3977]

It's worth mentioning that the Eureka stockade didn't just involve 'Australian' workers, but workers from dozens of different national backgrounds

[@nightazday7988]

probably going to be the first EH that is set IN AMERICA

[@MidnightAge]

I love the Legend of the Spelljammer box on the desk.

[@joshhalyk8255]

Congrats on one million subs

[@BListHistory]

I am SO excited for your articles of confederation series next. I was actually planning on doing something about the 1776 Pennsylvania constitution, in July. I can't wait to see how your series goes. Love you guys!

[@johnd1372]

I really loved this series especially the music I love it

[@jasperhighwind6119]

Actually, this was really good! Also, Soraya's smart and beautiful; I'm a fan :D

[@adoredpariah]

Wow, I just fell in love with Soraya in 10 minutes. Thank you universe for continuing to prove to me that awesome people do actually exist.

[@samsabastian5560]

adoredpariah Except she talked a load of fictitious nonsense.

[@thalunizz21]

Good format.

[@evilontoast7266]

congratulations on 1 million

[@jadestewart9607]

17:35 Thieves went to Australia because of the democratic system in place. Men hoping to enter British Parliament had to own a certain value of property, and livestock was chief amongst that. If that property value dipped below the threshold, they could no longer participate in Parliament. Thievery thus became something closer to manslaughter charges as we know it today, rather than a small footnote in a criminal record

[@Wonkyth]

That was a thoroughly entertaining video. Thanks. :)

[@snam1392]

I feel bad for Ned. He was trying to make me things better, and was pushed to dire actions. And then, he was killed

[@LoMoNoCrAt]

Soraya writes awesome Extra History, I hope she does more!

[@samsabastian5560]

LoMoNoCrAt What she stated in this video is a load of fiction.

[@scottmarsden5194]

Hi Guys. Just watched this video and as a local to the Glenrowan area I found it very fair and balanced . Well done. The only thing that grated was the pronunciation of Greta. It has long first vowel so is actually Gree.tah, not Gre.ta... Greta Garbo has a lot to answer for in this region. Again well done and thankyou.

[@samsabastian5560]

Scott Marsden Fair and balanced? Scott, it's a load of BS from top to bottom. I don't know where you are getting your information from, but this video is full of fiction.

[@blunderbus2695]

Are there any series that they've done that don't connect to Walpole in 1 or 2 extra connections? Seriously, it's like Walpole is the supreme influence on history that affects everything, everywhere. wait

[@jusTice95767]

Awesome series, really enjoyed it.

[@japeking1]

Charles Osbourne was commissioned to write a biography of Ned Kelly. ( called "Ned Kelly"). In an appendix of poems about Kelly, there is a "fake" poem " Stringybark, a fragment" which lets you know what Osbourne really thought about Kelly. Quite funny and something of a corrective to the current view of Kelly as victim.

[@Warlord-vo4cd]

I am no Australian, but I've been to Australia so I know the difference between the outback and the bush

[@kurtvanduran7725]

When Ned gets his shot in the leg I keep thinking of the scene from mad max were max getting shot in the leg.

[@evanfishsticks8010]

And we have no idea who was responsib-It was Walpole.

[@mashzapotato]

I saw James on the street an hour ago. He seemed like he was having a nice time.

[@pamesman]

A few months ago I saw a video of James talking and his voice sounded quite weird, I'm glad to see he's got now a more natural tone, or at least he's not using the tone that disturbed me before, idk, maybe it's because he's on an interview and actually talking to someone

[@D64nz]

Reminds me a lot of Mckenzie and his dog here in NZ. Sounds like there was a lot of corruption going on in the colonys at the time.

[@andrewkenrow245]

Congrats on passing one million

[@kaiakoa]

Ned Kelly's death mask is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. I saw it a few years back and it's a lot smaller than what I expected. For anyone interested www.portrait.gov.au/images/63920/ned-kelly-death-masks

[@rashkavar]

"The bush" being a reference to forested wilderness isn't strictly an Australianism, though; I don't know exactly how widespread it is, but I'd be astonished if I said to anyone here in British Columbia that someone was out "in the bush" and they assumed I meant they were hiding in a shrubbery rather than being off in the forest somewhere and not readily available.

[@Sillykat420]

Eyyyy happy 1,000,000 subs

[@Billa2720]

In my head I can here the insults from the letters spoken by Rowan Atkinson!

[@DavidChipman]

Or John Cleese: "I fart in your general direction!"

[@mrdarcy1985]

Australians love Ned Kelly. He's a national icon. Also, the first feature film ever made in the world was about him and it was made in Melbourne. Australia was built by criminals and 'downtrodden' people, so to see someone standing up to authority was a big thing for the country's normal folk. Anyway, Soraya is doing so well talking about him! She has a very impressive grasp on the subject considering she's not from Australia.

[@samsabastian5560]

Murderers do not quality as icons, Gore.

[@mauricemcdonald80]

@@samsabastian5560 Ahem, every war hero ever

[@generaljemssmjem437]

I realized this that YOU GUYS NOW HAVE 1000000 Subs

[@pbryan1967]

FYI the transportation of convicts to the Australian colonies ended in 1868. Over its entire 80 years only about 170,000 prisoners were sent, a LOT fewer than the number of voluntary settlers. So in the conversation she seems to be implying that a lot of the Victorian police were former convicts, which I think is dubious.

[@samsabastian5560]

Paul S WRONG... Most police officers in Victoria were recruited from Ireland as former police officers. The police force was 82% Irish. No police were former convicts. Where are you getting this nonsense from?