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

Thank you for watching me, a humble American, learn about Ned Kelly. Of course, this was merely part 1. I'll watch part 2 tomorrow. Thank you for joining me!
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[@BD-yl5mh]

Squatter means basically the same thing here, particularly in modern times. But in early Australian colonial history, it was the name given to people who went and helped themselves to land to farm. Because the early infrastructure of the country was only just being created there wasn’t really anyone to stop you from just going a days ride out of town, and fencing off a huge area and declaring it your own big property. According to the British, that was still land owned by the British crown that was never paid for or anything, but again, there was no real way to stop it in the early days of the country, so these ‘squatters’ (so named because they were technically squatting) became rich and powerful and became something of an early Australian rural aristocracy

[@tomzz2712]

i aint reading all dat

[@BRADWILLIAMS-gb8cc]

You neglected to mention that the Victorian government enacted The Lands Act in 1860 that took back all the lands squatters had unlawfully taken. That land was then allocated to poor settlers on excellent conditions. Your understanding of the situation is woeful.

[@timothyjn100]

@@tomzz2712 It is actually quite interesting and easy to follow. Your comment accentuates a failed education I'd imagine 😂

[@janined5784]

Ned and his family were Irish and most Irish immigrants were treated SO INCREDIBLY BADLY by the English powers that be. A hangover from how badly the Irish were treated in Ireland, again by the English. In the early days of Australia, things were very tough and the Kellys were driven to crime by sheer desperation, which they unfortunately continued. (My grandmothers nickname was Ned, because she used to cheat at cards. She did. That was back in the 1920's and 30's.) She was a character.

[@samsabastian5560]

Janine D Can you explain then why the vast majority of settlers in NE Victoria did NOT turn to crime, but worked hard on their settled land and did not resort to thieving, while the Kelly family carried out extensive criminal activities? English powers? REALLY? Two of the early premiers of Victoria were IRISH. 82% of the police in Victoria were Irish, and most were Catholic. The 3 police officers that Kelly murdered were ALL IRISH. Your comments reflect the fact that you have been reading fiction and believing it. Try reading The Kelly Gang Unmasked by Ian MacFarlane. You will then realise how far off reality your comments are.

[@BRADWILLIAMS-gb8cc]

Ned Kelly was born in Australia and always claimed he was Australian. 82% of the police force were Irish and two of the early premiers were Irish. Where are the British that you are claiming treated people badly?

[@serio0367]

6:48 To clarify, someone else gave him a stolen horse, but Ned didn’t know it was a stolen horse.

[@samsabastian5560]

Serio) Ned Kelly DID know the horse was stolen. He told several people, and at least one gave evidence against him, saying that Kelly intended to sell the horse for profit. He was properly convicted by a jury of 12 men and gaoled. Your comment follows made up myths.

[@DeadKennedys-eo1oo]

Correct. He got more time for using the horse than the thief that shook it.Neds records prove he was in Beechworth Gaol the time the horse was stolen.

[@bradwilliams7212]

Ned Kelly DID know that horse was stolen and he discussed selling it with some of his colleagues. James Murdoch gave evidence against Ned Kelly and he was convicted by a jury of 12 men from the local area. Your comment is a myth.

[@Loribyn]

To give you an idea of just how much £500 really was, in the 1880s a man's basic wage ~ i.e., that of a general labourer, was _around_ £40 a year (which is about three-quarters of a pound, or 15 shillings, a week). A shearer of 1880 earned 10-to-12s per hundred; and the really experienced, expert shearers, who specialised in shearing the ultra-fine Merino stud rams, could earn quite a bit more -- possibly even double that, depending on the shed. A skilled cook, whether male or female, could earn £60 p/a; a laundry-maid, the lowest-paid of any worker, would earn £20 p/a; a young female Teacher would earn no less than £80 p/a, a male no less than £100, while their Head Master could be on £180 p/a or more. For another comparison, to become a Doctor at the University of Melbourne in 1880, would cost you £10 per annum in fees, and you could expect to earn upwards of £250 p/a as soon as you graduated. Gold was £4 3s per ounce; you could buy good land in the bush at £1 per acre; and the famous Thoroughbred ~ 'the colt from Old Regret', mentioned by Andrew Barton 'The Banjo' Patterson in his 1890 poem 'The Man From Snowy River', was worth a £1,000, while the average hack pony was worth a few shillings. In other words, £500 was 'a small fortune' ~ a decade's wages for the common man; and technically worth about $80,000 in today's money (at least mathematically, but in real terms, it's more like $500,000). (The main source for all of the above is the Australian Bureau of Statistics Book of the Year for 1880).

[@nickbroadhurst2050]

Ned Kelly was a freedom fighter for many, not a "maniac". VB is Victorian Bitter - a beer. Ned is short for Edward. A bushranger is a declared outlaw who would like in the bush - Australian forest.

[@samsabastian5560]

Nick Broadhurst Ned Kelly was no freedom fighter. He was just a very serious murdering vicious criminal of the worst kind.

[@BRADWILLIAMS-gb8cc]

Ned Kelly WAS a maniac. Freedom fighter you claim. He was nothing of the sort. He robbed from poor settlers, murdered three police officer in a horrific manner. He took hostages, including women and children, threatening at gunpoint with death if they did not obey him. Your understanding of this vicious stand-over-thug is woeful.

[@timothyjn100]

@@BRADWILLIAMS-gb8cc The hostages they held were held in great conditions, partying with him and the gang. Not to mention the women and children held were freed. And so, your point? That's not how you treat hostages you'd like to harm. Quite the contrary 😂

[@sallieb6435]

Ned Kelly was no maniac, he and his family were poor and persercuted by bent coppers. Our country had only been settle less than 80yrs before, so the law here in country Victoria would've been very basic. Ned was a victim of the times - he's a real legend and a much loved character of our colonial times. "Such is life "

[@samsabastian5560]

Sallie B Where did you get the idea that the police were 'bent' as you claim? A Royal Commission into Victoria police, held in 1881, found that the police acted properly regarding the extensive criminality of Ned Kelly. Kelly was no victim, the people he stole from were, the real victims. Much loved, you claim. By who? You have to be pretty thick to love a man who murdered three police officers in cold blood, and who intended to murder many more if he could. Such is Life, are NOT words that Kelly spoke on the gallows. Your uderstanding of this vicious criminal is woeful.

[@jodiecostello6356]

Mate the police admitted to me Just two months ago that they only stopped hitting people with phone books in the watch house 4yrs ago. It is well known in Australia that ned came home to an officer sexualy assaulting a female member of Ned's family seeing this he shot the officer. Well known on the streets of Australia. That y the public protected and helped hide him for so long🤙

[@jodiecostello6356]

Held in 1881 yeah no corruption then underbelly in the 1990 r U darft mate

[@samsabastian5560]

@@jodiecostello6356 You have no idea what you are talking about. You're a fiction follower.

[@DeadKennedys-eo1oo]

@@samsabastian5560 Why the need for a Royal Commission if your Brethren acted professionally ? The RC proved what a bunch of criminals they were.Plenty of heads rolled with the findings.

[@6226superhurricane]

this video completely ignored the fact that the kellys were constantly harassed by police in an attempt to remove them from their land. i recommend watching the animated series by extra credits on youtube although still condensed it gives a far better representation of what happened.

[@samsabastian5560]

michael close The Royal Commission held in 1881 into Victoria police found that the police acted properly regarding the Kelly's criminal actions, and that they were not harassed. Try reading books written by professional historians on the subject, rather than watch rubbish on YT that is made up nonsense.

[@6226superhurricane]

@@samsabastian5560 lol of course it did, they were hardly going to investigate and find their mates guilty. if you think harassing people off their land for rich squatters is fine or being a copper and turning up drunk and harassing the women and girls is perfectly fine maybe you should get some morals. neither party was squeaky clean.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@6226superhurricane You have been reading made up myths, my friend. The Royal Commissioners were almost ALL anti-police, and they set out to 'get' the police. However, they found out very quickly that the police were acting properly. By 1869 almost all the squatters land had been taken back by the government and allocated properly to poor settlers on excellent terms. There were very few squatters left in that area when Kelly was at the peak of his horse stealing empire. Constable Fitzpatrick did not turn up drunk at all. He had one brandy and lemonade while en route to the Kelly home. Fitzpatrick did not make any approach to Kate Kelly at all. She made up that fiction 10 months after the event. Even Ned Kelly told journalists after he was captured that Fitzpatrick did not go near his sister. You are way off track with your comments.

[@6226superhurricane]

@@samsabastian5560 sure

[@samsabastian5560]

@@6226superhurricane You can be sure that everything I have said is 100% true, and comes from research done by professional historians with PhD's on the subject. If you claim otherwise, please show us your evidence.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Fun fact. The 1906 Ned Kelly film is regarded as the very first feature film. Made in Australia. Before Hollywood.

[@samsabastian5560]

1906, sport

[@SoggyToast506]

Fun fact the one of the last person’s Ned Kelly killed was one of my family members (Ancestor) My grandparents told me that.

[@swagmanau9038]

@@SoggyToast506 And who was that?

[@SoggyToast506]

@@swagmanau9038 why would I tell a stranger my last name??? 🤷‍♂️

[@SeverusSnek]

@@SoggyToast506 that’s really cool!!

[@Badassery666]

When the judge asked if he was prepared to meet his maker Ned famously said, “well, we’re not here to fuck spiders”

[@davidsmith-white4212]

When Ned was about 13 years old he jumped into a swollen river to save the life of a four year old who had fallen in - local authorities recognized this and gave him an award for bravery, So not all bad, I guess! DSW

[@samsabastian5560]

David Smith-White. WRONG. It was a creek in Avenel. His parents presented Kelly with a sash. There were probably other boys who helped him to save Dick Shelton.

[@athag1]

@@samsabastian5560 I saw that sash in a museum in Benalla. It was green silk with a faded blood stain - he had worn it at the last stand.

[@DeadKennedys-eo1oo]

@@samsabastian5560 so now you're calling the most respected family in Avenel at the time a bunch of liars ? man you are one disrespectful c t .

[@frenchys_prospecting]

Ned Kelly was born just a few kms from me and his house is still standing. A bushranger is an Australian “highway robber” Typically they survive in the bush/forest and are very good at staying hidden.

[@agenttheater5]

I guess that's why the police brought in the trackers. The Indigenous people know the land better than any English cop would

[@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb]

Greta west

[@frenchys_prospecting]

@@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb who?

[@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb]

Greta west is where what's left of Ned Kelly's homestead is

[@frenchys_prospecting]

@@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb ahh ok. No I meant his birthplace which is Beveridge. The house his dad built is still there but it's decaying and falling down because no one wants to have the responsibility of rebuilding it to historic standards so it's just under private trust.

[@darneyoung537]

The mother was sentenced to hard labor while Ned was away. Fitzpatrick went to the homestead shot the cow which the girls got milk from, and all their sheep, therefore left the girls starving . Ned came home and that made him go ballistic. Hence that’s why he ended up fighting the police.

[@samsabastian5560]

Darne young. Your comment is made up fiction. Fitzpatrick went to the home to arrest Dan Kelly on a warrant for horse stealing. He did not shoot any cow as you claim. Ned Kelly was already at the home hiding from the police. You have no idea do you?

[@darneyoung537]

@@samsabastian5560 look up the history I got that information out of a history book on the Kelly’s Fitzpatrick was making a drunken advance on Kate Kelly the mother hit him and saved her daughter but she went to prison for helping her daughter he came back to the homestead out of revenge and killed the animals so don’t tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about you get your facts straight

[@renatewest6366]

His mother received Hard Laour for nothing.Miscarried in prison

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@renatewest6366 Ellen Kelly was properly convicted of an attack on Constable Fitzpatrick by bashing him over the head with a fire shovel. The ws represented in court by two solicitors, and a jury of 12 men found her guilty. She was properly convicted as the facts clearly show.

[@BRADWILLIAMS-gb8cc]

TOTAL FICTION. Fitzpatrick did nothing that you are claiming. You are off with the fairies.

[@Aussiedave54]

Don't call him a maniac, he was a legend 🇦🇺

[@samsabastian5560]

Dave Ned Kelly was a maniac. Legends do not murder people. Your comment is a load of bull.

[@RedactedRyanTV]

@@samsabastian5560 It was all justified

[@Aussiedave54]

@@samsabastian5560 I don't know if he killed anyone or not, I wasn't around at that time, were you?😛

[@samsabastian5560]

@@RedactedRyanTV Please explain how any murder can be justified?

[@samsabastian5560]

@@Aussiedave54 Get real. Don't you think there were written records of those events? Your comment is way off course.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

The inflation calculator page had a small sentence under it for times older than 1966...Australia used to run on the imperial system even more than the US did because our money was pounds, shillings and pence...the US always had decimal currency.

[@SxVaNm345]

He should react to that video that explains how Aus’s plastic currency changed the world.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@SxVaNm345 It has not changed the world yet. The US are still in the dinosaur age.

[@aussiebornandbred]

Ned Kelly was and is still a legend, a man of courage standing up against the authorities

[@samsabastian5560]

Aussie born and bred. Legends do not murder police. Ned Kelly is well known to intelligent people as a very serious criminal. He did stand up to authorities, who were rightly trying to bring his extensive criminal activities to an end.

[@aussiebornandbred]

@@samsabastian5560 I'd stand with Ned any day before the 🐖🐖🐽🐽

[@cherylgold8368]

@@samsabastian5560 , considering that he early police were made up of convicts, and it was Constable Fitzpatrick who raped Ned's sister Kate who was only 14 years old at the time, l can fully understand his wrath with the police and his actions afterwards.....Have you ever read what is known as the Jerilderie letter, a detailed letter he wrote justifying his actions in the year before his death, a very interesting look into the thoughts of a man who was wronged by the establishment, l for one admire Ned and his stand, and remember when he robbed the banks he also stole the debt papers of the poor locals and disposed of them so the banks could not foreclose and evict the tenants...

[@ingridclare7411]

@@samsabastian5560 Hmm, his mum too? What about the ceaseless hounding from the squatters? Who stole their government given land off them. Stole it for the 2nd time. The Kelly women were treated so badly by the 'authorties'...If he did not take down those 2 police constables, they would have shot him. It was an instinctive reaction. One of them had treated his family v badly, especially the women. I assume you've read his Jerilderie Letter? I mean, you 'being intelligent and all'....( and what generation Aussie would you be, just for interest? Seven? With ancestors who endured the same as the Catholic Irish Kelly family did? Or perhaps not.)

[@godamid4889]

@@samsabastian5560 they weren't police. They were the brutal arm of enforcement employed by the British aristocracy. Check out their behaviour at the Eureka Stockade and learn a little bit about your heritage mate - the cops back then were worse than the convicts. I like how you paint it as murder instead of self defence, nice rewriting of the actual events. The police came shooting, not the other way around.

[@paulalwayslearning8573]

“I recognised his bucket” is a great line to open up on how much you knew about this bloke. Classic stuff that!

[@rickyd.989]

A tour is available through the old Melbourne jail where Ned Kelly was hanged. The old gallows etc are still there and it’s quite an eerie experience.

[@danzydan2479]

Went there as a young kid in the late 70's. Still remember seeing his death cast.

[@shaunpeterson6912]

Apparently my great great grandmother on my father's side lived next to the Kelly family. She lived to be over 100yrs years old and on her 100th birthday she featured in a newspaper with a, story about how she grew up living next to the Kelly family. I think my parents have a cutting from the paper but can't be sure.

[@Lnch4ALion]

Billy the kid, the poor man's Ned Kelly 🤷

[@clabood]

Hi Ryan. I am late to the party. It has been interesting few months catching up on all you have learnt about Australia. I would say the inflation calculator didn't work because in 1966 we changed from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents. Happy exploring and thank you for taking the time to learn about Australia.

[@BassMatt1972]

About $15k today.. A "bushranger" is someone who roams the bush, doing petty crimes like stealing and sheep theft to live. Like a "Jessie James" or similar in the Old West (about the same time). Squatters originally did just "squat" the land for their sheep, but after years their ownership of that huge "free" land was recognised, and gave them money and power (of assets/land) that cost them nothing, in the new Colonies. (For a long time you needed to own land to VOTE etc) Try to catch one of the Ned Kelly movies.. Mick Jagger was in one, but the one with Heath Ledger was ok.. FUN FACT: "The Story of the Kelly Gang" At over an hour long, this 1906 Australian-made MOVIE production is thought to be the world’s first feature-length narrative movie. Australia's (and possibly the WORLDS) first full length feature movie! And VB, Victorian Bitter, a beer drank by Victorians (even then only a few! We drink Coopers Ale is South Australia!)

[@urbanpermie6307]

15 k? No. Back then land was 1 pound per acre. Considering you cant purchase an acre of land anywhere in Victoria for under $400.000 the bounty is closer to 200 Million in today's money..

[@james6028]

the rba calculator only goes back to 1901 but 500 pounds was equivalent to $80,805.60 in 2021

[@kazzagreen84]

@@james6028 one of the calculators I found said around $90,000. A good amount.

[@flamingfrancis]

Not forgetting that we have a song / poem that is a national treaure and toted by many as a national anthem. It tells the story of a sheep thief who had the Police after him until he jumped into a billabong and.........gooooooone.

[@andyjay9346]

Ned Kelly's last words were, "I'm only here to stop the Australians from going on the Dating Apps. They're highway robbery!"

[@AustralianSpectrum]

Ned is a shortening of the name Edward, like Bill for William, Dick for Richard, Liz for Elizabeth, Rae for Raylene, etc. We tend to shorten multiple syllable names. Also strangely Curly for a bald guy, Bluey for a red head.

[@relleprobert6408]

Check out Russell Coight “All Aussie Adventures” or axis of awesome “4 chord song” for some Australian humour.

[@carabatzis25]

Russell coights all Aussie adventures! Funny stuff 👍

[@donnamantellato4094]

Thank you for doing these videos. We are taught these things about Australia in school but love learning it again through your eyes. Our government is also starting to give back some sacred land to the indigenous people. Uluru or Ayers Rock has been handed back to them.

[@BraydonHopfner]

We got to go a month before it go closed down, go watch cliffhanger for 4WDing extreme

[@jadecawdellsmith4009]

@@BraydonHopfner what do u mean "closed down"? It's still there, it still has the same significance as always & u can still visit.

[@samsabastian5560]

Donna Mantellato Are you sure you were told the truth. Most of what I have seen taught to school children is a load of fictitious nonsense.

[@DeadKennedys-eo1oo]

@@samsabastian5560 Of course you would say that Sgt.Being a Police descendant of the times you live with stigma of the worst Police force in Australian History.

[@tropicaussie4572]

An Icon of the rebellious Australian spirit !

[@samsabastian5560]

Tropic Aussie NOPE. Ned Kelly was just a very serious murdering criminal. End of story.

[@dummythicccakestudios4966]

Most Aussies see Ned as a hero/legend. I was lucky enough to be able to sit in the same chair he did when he was sentenced I also have walked around the place he was killed. Also if you get a tour of "The Old Melbourne Gaol" they will explain that the true story was the officer pulled out his own gun after ned had guns pointed towards him this is why ned shot him.

[@samsabastian5560]

Dummy Thicc Cake Studios Speak for yourself. Intelligent people know that Ned Kelly was just a very serious, murdering criminal. He is only seen as a hero by people who are ignorant of the facts. In other words, you.

[@rallymum5246]

He enjoyed this. Wait til he finds out about the Eureka Stockaid. 😂

[@samsabastian5560]

@@rallymum5246 Stockaid? You must be kidding?

[@rallymum5246]

@@samsabastian5560 i spelt it wrong , sorry

[@DeadKennedys-eo1oo]

@@rallymum5246 Don't worry mate the guys a fkn lunatic....A copper. oink oink

[@fairmaiden6472]

Being an Australian from NSW, your reaction to us here in oz is absolutely hilarious

[@soapiesoap5649]

You’re Australian but say oz? Hmmm interesting

[@bigbad6983]

@@soapiesoap5649 Oz = Aus, Ozzie = Aussie. Then there's Astraya and strine. An Ozzie lives in Astraya and is a strine that speaks strine

[@soapiesoap5649]

Never heard an Australian use the term Oz most Australian use Aus. Ozzie is a very American thing

[@johnnimbus8761]

In Austin Texas there is a country band called Reckless Kelly who based their name on our Ned. Indeed, an easier album cover uses the helmet and crossed pistols depiction. Great music to.

[@Streetw1s3r]

The inflation calculator only works from 1966 because that's when we switched to dollarydoos.

[@1S1KStealth]

Yep and it also turns out it's about $115000 Aud

[@LawrenceAkers]

Around the time I was growing up, there was an Australian mini-series on Ned Kelly which I loved and made me fascinated with him for many years. A great character as part of Australia history. Loving your videos lately by the way - a lot of fun.

[@samsabastian5560]

Lawrence Akers Unfortunately there has not been any film or mini-series that reflects the truth about Ned Kelly in any way shape or form. All fictitious nonsense.

[@LawrenceAkers]

@@samsabastian5560 I never knew that. I thought the aim of 'The Last Outlaw' was to create something that was based on fact as closely as possible.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@LawrenceAkers That series was under the control of Ian Jones, who was a Kelly fan. The entire series is a twisted mess. He showed the police to be the bad guys and the criminals, e.g. Ned Kelly, to be oppressed and in some cases bashed up by police. It does not show the vicious nature of Ned Kelly and the way he treated and stood over poor settlers.

[@LawrenceAkers]

@@samsabastian5560 Thanks for sharing that. It might be worth me going back and re-exploring this part of history at some time. Do you have any recommendations there?

[@samsabastian5560]

@@LawrenceAkers Best book to read is The Kelly Gang Unmasked by Ian MacFarlane. It is well researched and smashes a large number of Kelly myths. Also books by Dr Doug Morrissey PhD Ned Kelly A Lawless Life and Selectors, Squatters and Stock Thieves. All well researched and quite accurate. Ian Jones also wrote a book in 1995 called Ned Kelly A Short Life. It is full of made up rubbish that lauds a very serious criminal. Forget that one, and also forget Ned Kelly by Peter FitzSimons. He also wrote a book that follows the myths that Jones wrote.

[@jessbellis9510]

My best friend has Ned Kelly in their family tree but no one believes her because she takes after her mother in looks, who is Thai. Her father is full Aussie bloke though.

[@paulrichardson5892]

the big shootout at glenrowan leaves the ok corral in the shade. a recent archeological study found 15 thousand cases and bullets at the glenrowan hatel site.

[@brendaamis1489]

14th February 1966 was when Australia changed from Imperial to Decimal currency, I remember this well as there was a jingle being played on TV . The reward offered was 500 Pounds so will need to be converted to Dollars value and also appropriate inflation rates. Despite his misdeeds he is usually looked upon by many as a legendary hero and as others as a criminal. Considering the times and living conditions I am sure there would have been many others trying to support themselves and families under harsh penal conditions. The history of Australia is both interesting and colorful. I am sure if you ever visit you would find us a welcoming nation with a unique sense of humor, not taking ourselves too seriously and quick to take the mickey out of others. I really enjoy your videos on this great nation I live in. Thanks Ryan, keep up the good work.

[@murraysaunder9210]

The Victoria Bitter beer commercials are worth a look.

[@elizabethpilarski1076]

😅

[@quartzteeth8429]

Ivan Milat had 10 brothers, and 4 sisters. Just throwing that out there.

[@BeckalsOCE]

Good arvo mate, as an Aussie, I love your stuff. Great Content!

[@robby1816]

@6:35 "Received a *stolen* horse unknowingly" @12:00 You need to use the Australian Pre-Decimal Inflation Calculator (1901-2020 500 becomes about $79K The cops were basically the Squatters' personal security force, being bought off. (which is why they mentioned the Squatters' Money & Power)

[@samsabastian5560]

Rob By At the time Kelly was at the peak of his criminal activities, there were almost no squatters left in the Greta area. The Royal Commission into Victoria police of 1881, found that the police acted with integrity regarding the extensive criminal activities of the Kelly's.

[@BRADWILLIAMS-gb8cc]

Where did you dream up that fiction from. By 1860 almost all the squatters had been moved on by the Victorian government. Your comment is out of step with reality.

[@zombiemeg]

“I recognised his bucket” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelfogarty3239]

I Am Related to this constable Fitzpatrick. He is my great, great, great uncle on my mum's side. He is buried in Box Hill, Victoria.

[@raykhoury6657]

Loving your content.

[@deedixon1069]

Ohhh goodness meeee I’ve had such a giggle watching you all respect though Even the video u showed about famous Aussie history This fella u were listening to just grazed the surface of Absolutely mind blowing history past to present day Bless ur heart ❤️🦋Ned Kelly though was Cool spot on👍🏽🦋💯

[@samsabastian5560]

Dee Smith Ned Kelly was a serious criminal and was not cool.

[@simbob26]

£500 in 1880 Australia would be well over AUD $100,000 in 2022. The reason that the RBA calculator didn’t work is because we changed from British Pounds to Australian Pounds in 1910 and from Australian Pounds to Australian Dollars in 1966.

[@vickigreen9545]

Ned Kelly was a bad dude, a school teacher took him down in the end

[@Qldgarbo55]

He's the best bloke you brain less budgy.

[@bradleyholdom9677]

They always talk about Australia like they were the only ones too use convicts for slave Labor. We had more convicts here in the USA then they ever did in Australia. But us Yanks are extremely good at projecting our own insecurities. Same story with the bad treatment of the natives. At least you guys still have a sizable indigenous population. Come too the USA and try finding a Native American that isn't whiter than snow and doesn't attend church 🤣

[@jenb658]

Of course we weren’t the only country to have penal colonies. The British (as you so rightly state) sent convicts to many places including India, Bermuda and Singapore. The French too. To New Caledonia and, of course, Louisiana in the US. What you have to remember is that these colonies we established before international communication through newspapers and other means was as easy as it became during Australia’s colonisation. While the US was

[@jenb658]

Whole the US was colonised in the early 1600s when slavery was still a thing, Australia hadn’t even been mapped. In 1778 it was declared an English colony. By then slavery had been abolished in the UK. It took the Americas another almost 100 years (1865) to do the same. That’s why Australia is seen as a “penal colony” and not a “slave colony”.

[@Neva2high]

I agree but am curious if you know about the aborigines being (forced) bred to be white? Also I once read that the worse convicts got sent to America instead of Australia but that might be bs.

[@Loribyn]

​@@jenb658 A very convenient distinction, Jen! And one that simply reeks of its bullshit, I'm afraid, for the convicts were most certainly used as slave-labour; as were the Aboriginal Stolen Generations, along with everyone else, black, white or brindle, who found themselves in the Australian government- and church-run orphanage systems ... right up to the late 1960s! Yes, the NINETEEN-sixties. We HAVE had slavery in Australia -- our governments and churches have just never had the courage nor integrity to call it that. But we have; and in fact, our convicts got many hundreds more lashes than the American slaves ever got in punishment ~ often until they died. The American history books speak in horror at the administration of 100 lashes to a slave; here, they could be ten times that, and were, for unlike in the US here there was no legal limit, so our history books refer to 800 lashes and more (and you don't want to know how the children in our orphanages were 'punished'). For, as repugnant a notion as it is, the American slaves at least held financial-value for their owners; the Australian slaves - whether convict, Stolen Aboriginal, or children - simply did not. We too had whole generations of disposable people, Jen; but our slavery was hidden, right where most people couldn't see it -- and not only because they didn't want to see it after the end of the convict era, whose barbarism is well documented, but because it was deliberately hidden ~ in prisons, in orphanages, on the Missions, and out on the big, outback properties in virtual captivity and slave-'wages' (paid only in grog, baccy, flour and/or other supplies), so it could last, away from prying eyes. But all that said, at least ours did end -- the Seppos still use their convicts as slave-labour in their for-profit prisons, and still can't manage to pay their people a livable minimum-wage.

[@jenb658]

@@Loribyn . I don’t disagree with you. I was trying to provide historical context around why Australia is perceived as one of the only penal colonies. I don’t deny slave labour was used.

[@dougritchie5305]

500 pounds in 1880 is approx $116,000 AUS today. But buying power is greater than that, thats a whole other thing.

[@hoptoit5910]

That ‘bucket’ was in fact a metal helmet he made to prevent him being killed by a headshot from either police or other bush rangers

[@alexliberty100]

The inflation calculator website had been updated. 500 pounds would be worth about 90K today

[@agenttheater5]

What this doesn't mention is that when he was a child (about 12, maybe 10) Ned Kelly saved a younger boy from drowning. The boys family rewarded him by giving him a green silk sash with gold trimming. Ned kept it his whole life, he was wearing it when he was caught.

[@nerissawood73]

On 14 Feb 1966 Australia changed its currency. Previously we were Pounds Shillings Pence (Imperical like the UK) but now we are Decimal with Dollars and cents. Also another few random pieces of info - Australia changed from Miles to Kilometers in 1974, and it was in 1972 we changed from oF to oC.

[@glenngilbert2632]

(not sure when the law started but it was still operational in the 80's whilst I was in primary school), there use to be a law called "squatters rights" where if you lived in and paid ALL BILLS (land/council tax- amenities etc) for a set period of time you could claim it as yours in court. There was also a "year and a day" law where you couldn't get charged with murder if the victim remained alive for a year and a day (this only changed with HIV & AIDS)

[@drboris01]

I moved to Benalla a few years back.... right into the middle of Kelly Country. Whether Ned was a good guy or a bad guy is still a contentious issue, even today.

[@samsabastian5560]

Ian Jordan The facts clearly show that Ned Kelly was a vicious, murdering criminal. One of the worst that the Victorian people had to tolerate, until he was finally stopped at Glenrowan. You say the matter is contentious. If you read the fiction, that proliferates, you are right, but read the facts presented in books by professional historians and you will get the message loud and clear.

[@jodiecostello6356]

@@samsabastian5560 then y did they help hide him? R U an officer?

[@samsabastian5560]

@@jodiecostello6356 NO, but I am conversant with the true story, not the fiction. You would do well to research facts and not fiction. Of 14,500 people in NE Victoria, only about 250 were supporters. Some 2%.

[@jodiecostello6356]

@@samsabastian5560 fact Australia was founded by convicts🤣 hi sam

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@jodiecostello6356 Victoria took no convicts from the UK.

[@grandmothergoose]

Regarding that intro and your question about if you should look that up: VB is a common beer in Australia that is often linked with the bogan stereotype. Looking up simply "VB" will pull up ads and review videos on that. As for the bbq sausages, you can learn more about them by looking up "Bunnings Sausage" and/or "Democracy sausage". If the term bogan is one you haven't come across before, look up "Hype Duo: I'm Australian Man" for a fun rapid fire lyrical introduction to the stereotype.

[@AnaDizzy]

OMG Heath Ledger played Ned Kelly in the movie. 🇦🇺❤️💯

[@krisbest6405]

There,s a movie out there that shows squatters violent life near the Hawksberry river even our piano comedian, Tim Minchin, was in it but the title escapes me.

[@cort1206]

A grade 7 English assessment is to write a persuasive essay on whether ned was a hero or villain (many stand by hero)

[@samsabastian5560]

Cortni Pearce. Then you have no idea what you are talking about. Ned Kelly was a vicious murdering criminal. End of story.

[@cort1206]

@@samsabastian5560 I don't have an opinion on it

[@ghostieyog6445]

A town I used to live in, Maryborough, has a giant statue for him. They also were where Mary Poppins was written, so their crossing walk images are shaped like Mary Poppins and they have a statue of her in town too.

[@SeverusSnek]

Fun fact 1: I’ve been *inside* the Kelly’s house and seen a show that explained the history behind Ned Kelly/the Kelly gang. Fun fact 2: I have family who lives in an area that Ned Kelly terrorised in his period of power

[@samsabastian5560]

SeverusSnek You are correct in your statement that Ned Kelly terrorised the area in which he lived.

[@joefoley6297]

A very divisive character. Police and Authorities DETEST him on instant mention. State Library of Victoria are strong supporters. PROUDLY display the full armour (not just the helmet) and the original hand written Jerilderie letter.

[@ricky5598]

Ned Kelly is our hero Mate, along with few others. If your Mum was unlawfully jailed what would you do. Also when her obbed banks he burnt the mortgages held with the bank therefore releasing the mortgagee from the debt.making him very popular with his country men, which is why at there peril they helped him. He was the only person in the Commonwealth who could be shot on sight without repercussions and a reward paid by the crown, Victoria the first Ordered this bounty, he was never shot for the reward. One of his best inventions with help from many Blacksmith ( who would be jailed for helping him and his gang ) was the Aussie Armour with was similar metal to what disc ploughs were made from. He also had Blacksmiths make his and his gang mates horse shoes completely circular, therefore the trackers couldn't work out which way he was headed. Benalla, Beachworth, Glenrowan, is still affectionately known as Kelly Country.. Don't mess with our Ned Mate. One of the bravest men of our land. Steve Irwin and close second. He's the reason we don't do what authority wants us to do and Steve is the reason we don't play with Crocs and venomous snakes.

[@samsabastian5560]

Ricky, Dumb and false comments throughout. 1. Ellen Kelly bashed a police officer over the head with a fire shovel, and she was convicted by a jury of 12 men from her area. Your comment is FALSE. 2. The mortgages remained. There were duplicate copies in central banks. Your comment is FALSE. 3. The Felons Apprehensions Act did NOT allow a proclaimed felon to be shot on sight. Your comment is FALSE. 5. There is no evidence that any blacksmith assisted in making the armour. Your comment is FALSE. 6. Circular horse shoes. Where did you dream up that rubbish from? Your comment is FALSE. 7. Ned Kelly was only brave when he was ordering people around when he had a weapon in hand. He specialised in threatening women and children with death if they did not obey him. Your comments are a load of garbage Ricky.

[@bradwilliams7212]

WRONG. Ellen Kelly was properly convicted by a jury of 12 men from her area. She was found guilty of aiding and abetting Ned Kelly in the attempted murder of Constable Fitzpatrick. Your colmment regarding mortgages is silly. There were generally 3 copies of mortgages. One was held in the Lands Titles office in Melbourne. The debts remained. Dumb comment, again. No one could shoot any declared felon on site. Your understanding of the Felons Apprehensions Act is abysmal. Ned Kelly was a coward, as the facts clearly show. He was a vicious murdering criminal.

[@paulwhillas6494]

The squatters were like the early cattlemen in America who had had use of huge areas of land without actual legal title to it. (Hence squatters) The farmers here were like the sod busters or nesters in America. They had legal title to smaller areas, but were poorer and without political influence. Like the big ranchers in the American west, the squatters used both force and legal means to disposses many of the small farmers.

[@paulwhillas6494]

Selectors selected small areas of land to farm. They had to "prove up" the land, by clearing it, building a home, and perhaps making some money from it, all in a limited time, and then they gained title to it ( like the sodbusters or nesters in America)

[@Keiran-qr2ty]

Bush ranger=hood ninja that horse charge is like a gun charge😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cort1206]

An EXTREMELY major point that was completly dismisited in this video was that although barely knowing how to swim himself at about 10 , rescued 7 year old Richard Shelton from drowning and ned was rewarded with a green silk sash that he would where where everyday up till the end and the sash is till on display at Melbourne museum

[@samsabastian5560]

Cortni Pearce Ned Kelly WADED into a swollen creek to rescue Shelton. Others were there to help.

[@TGTB1234]

In my family we kinda "worship!" Ned Kelly! He is a simble ov rebellion and freedom! He is a legend!

[@bradwilliams7212]

Only in the minds of ignirant fools.

[@markhill3858]

that bucket, and his body armour, could stop a spencer rifle :) weighed a ton .. whole gang had them, but only used in 1 gunfight

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

One of the drunk soldiers wanted to have his way with ned's sister. So he had to deal with his sly shenanigans too. Ma Kelly kept having babies after she got a new hubby too. Ned married, his wife went off to america to get away from the corrupt soldiers, before her baby was born. He was not an idiot, just badly treated from a young age. Had too many soldier/police scheming against him. There was a shack to hide out in, with a hidey hole under the flooror caves he knew. Cheap housing was made by occupants, from whatever they could get. Like the packing boxes, tea chests, they brought their gear over from england in. Families tried to follow their dads over for a better life, if they could. Prisoners were not sent back after, unless they could pay the fare.

[@metalman1019]

£500 then is roughly £60000 today or in AUD just under $106000

[@ElvenFruitcake]

Your inflation calculator didn't work because the Australian dollar wasn't around back then, they were using British pounds. So in modern times 500 pound would be worth about £47,500, or roughly $84,755 Australian dollars, or $57,700 in U.S. dollars

[@ElvenFruitcake]

So basically it was a damn big bounty 🤣

[@kennethbell-hn9zv]

Family bond to the point where youd do whatever it takes to make life better for family.

[@agenttheater5]

Believe me, there are plenty of people all over the world who have a legitimate reason to hold a grudge against England. And the Irish would be pretty high on that list.

[@tiorammcdonough7666]

Okay, when the Kelly gang first killed officers it was after they heard that a group of police were chasing them as they were trying to earn money at a distillery to try get Neds mum out of prison. The 500 pound bounty would be roughly worth $90k AUD today

[@rodairs1575]

I think the term "Squatter" was originally used in Australia and then picked up by the Americans similar to the word "Eureka".It may shock you but I think it's close to the Mark. Cheers

[@blueycarlton]

Eureka has Greek origins. Archimedes screamed out Eureka! when he sat in his down scalding hot bath. Displacement or something.

[@sophiehatcher2858]

I think you were having trouble with the inflation calculator because Australia’s currency was in £ pounds until 1966

[@marianjeffrey8684]

You can see Ned Kelly's blood stained scarf in Benalla's museum. Benalla is in north east Victoria and well worth a visit.

[@marieantoinette1360]

Such is life. You'll see this tattoo'd on many Aussies and I think really says a lot about our mentality and outlook.

[@samsabastian5560]

Marie Antoinette Lots of dumb people out there, isn't there? Seeing that Ned Kelly NEVER uttered those words on the gallows. Just another Kelly myth.

[@elisedrake4385]

ooh fun story: the university of Adelaide produced an article that showed (with a small and probably questionable sample size) that people who have Ned Kelly tattoos are a certain % more likely to die a violent death such as murder or suicide compared to heart attack/old age etc

[@marieantoinette1360]

@@elisedrake4385 yeah it definitely has that outlaw vibe, I'd go for the southern cross star if I was gonna do it, over Ned Kelly stuff, but that's just me.

[@RedactedRyanTV]

@@elisedrake4385 Sweet, I’ve got that tattood right next to a eureka stockade flag and a southern cross

[@samsabastian5560]

@@RedactedRyanTV Why would you do that, when Ned Kelly NEVER uttered those words. You have been conned, big time.

[@trixyalston1904]

A Bushranger is the same as an outlaw

[@justunicorn001]

500pounds in 1880 is equivalent to £64,089.07 pounds today, so in todays Australian Dollars it is $112,856.76

[@TotallyNotASIO]

I personally know the grandchild of the person who’s horse got stolen 👍

[@GippslandCNC]

Are you able to get Vegemite or should we send you some

[@katdiangelo8214]

fun fact: The bossman of Beechworth jail while Ned Kelly was held there was Governor Charles Thompson. (I only know this because he's allegedly a relative)

[@TheEmeliaJean]

I could be wrong BUT before Australia became a federation (at least before the 1900s) I think we basically used British currency, so according to the GBP inflation calculator £500 in 1880 is equal to £64,000 today which then converted to USD is about $78,500.

[@samsabastian5560]

TheEmeliaJean. Australian federation was on January 1, 1901. Victoria became a self-governing colony in 1851, but a government was not operational until 1856.

[@urbanpermie6307]

Yes, but swap inflation for land prices and its worth at least 200 million in today's money..Land could be purchased for 1 pound an acre back then...an acre block in Victoria would set you back at least 400 k today.

[@TheEmeliaJean]

@@urbanpermie6307 so true!! Even more if it was here in Sydney 🥲

[@annettefellows8418]

Australian Federation was in 1901. We used British currency up until the 1960s

[@TheEmeliaJean]

@@annettefellows8418 ACTUALLY, from 1910 to 1966 we used the Australian pound. previous to 1910 we used British currency.

[@michaellodge1489]

A surprising movie on Ned has Mick Jagger playing Ned

[@ebbhead20]

Hes had quite a few films about him now. Mick Jagger played him way back. But so did Heath Ledger i remember..

[@agenttheater5]

6:43 The story goes that a friend of the family and left his horse with them for a day or two. Ned groomed and cared for the horse and since it was a beautiful one, he rode it into town to show it off, like some teenagers nowadays may ride off in a car that they've been given the keys to in order to look after it to show off to their friends. What he didn't know was that the family friend had in fact stole the horse, so a policeman tried to arrest him on grounds that he'd stolen it or had taken part in stealing it and tried to shoot Ned when he resisted arrest. I'm pretty sure that's that one. Apparently there's a rumour from a few years previously when a horse was reported missing and after a few weeks Ned returned it for the reward, but the horse had been well fed and well groomed and didn't look like it had been wandering around by itself for weeks, so there's suspicion that ned stole the horse or found the horse a lot earlier and had kept it until the reward had gone up, but that however it had happened it was suspected that rather keep horse hungry and ungroomed like it would be if it was loose in the wild, he had cared for the horse.

[@bradwilliams7212]

WRONG. Ned Kelly knew the horse was stolen and discussed selling it with colleagues. James Murdoch gave evidence against Ned Kelly and he was properly convicted by a jury of 12 men from the region. You are talking a load of fictitious rot.

[@agenttheater5]

@@bradwilliams7212 I said 'the story goes'

[@bradwilliams7212]

@@agenttheater5 The true story doesn't go that way, does it?

[@kristalpalace]

He was mad as a hatter 😆

[@badpossum440]

In America the big cattle men were squatters. they tried to drive out the "sodbusters". Billy the kid fought against "Squatters." trying to take land settled by others. Not an exact comparison but close. Australis did much as America did. we even had paddle steamers on the Darling river.

[@edwardrodgers9383]

BUSHRANGER - a lawless character who lives in the countryside. HORSE-THIEF - receiving a horse unknowingly NED-KELLY - my uncle used to say that my cousin, Kevin was like Ned-Kelly; he stole from the rich and gave to the poor; like Robin-Hood.

[@samsabastian5560]

Edward Rodgers Dumb comment without one thing being true. You are hopeless.

[@ZlNGlEE]

After a very quick look around the Reserve Bank of Australia website (which I can only get to go as far back as 1901), says that 500 Pounds in 1901 (again, as far back as it shows) is worth $80,805.60 today.

[@Diamarkin]

1 pound sterling (english pounds) had the buying power equivalent of 114.35 pounds in 2017. Multiplied by 500 = 57175 English pounds' buying power. Converted to US dollars = $66378.17

[@alsanderandciaran]

Ned Kelly's a hero

[@samsabastian5560]

Alsander and Ciaran Only to ignorant people who have no idea what they are talking about.

[@jodiecostello6356]

@@samsabastian5560 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣oh Sam bless your cotton socks

[@bhsaproduction]

Value of £500 from 1880 would be around $130,000 AUD today or about £76,954.87. The pound had an average inflation rate of 3.58% pa since 1880, producing a cumulative increase of 15,290%. Todays Exchange rate: 1 GBP = 1.69463 AUD

[@jmaros15]

A minute in Lol, just cracked a VB 2 seconds before the VB intro Lmao;) And about to cook Aussie style Chinees stir fry.

[@Shado_wolf]

According to the RBAs pre decimal calculator £500 in 1901 (because that is as far back as it goes) would be worth $80,805.60

[@cassandramcfadyen1988]

There were no Australian Dollars back then. Pounds! :)

[@TheSamleigh]

U no that dollar conversion break during the video - I did exactly that in regard to this same video and that same Kelly family cos I was interested too (saw the vid ages ago & I had the same reaction). Dear god! Back to your vid (since I’ve been there & done that) I’m shouting @ the iPad - it’s gonna take ages - it took me ages … ya never gonna do this - I got a headache doing it - Yeah - See! Anyways I kept going & I worked it out. … Hey? Ummmm nah - can’t remember now - sorry dude. I do remember going to the Olde Melbourne Gaol when I was a young child tho and still remember standing right beside the gallows where they hung poor Ned listening to the story and I really remember the complete air of sadness/hopelessness/resignation? (I couldn’t really figure it out cos I wasnt old enuf to understand) but I did feel something and it wasn’t happiness. Wot they did to Ned was a crime.

[@glennboyd939]

That was only the first half of the story. Later, he invents bulletproof armour, and goes head to head with 50 cops all night.

[@bradwilliams7212]

WRONG. Ned Kelly's contribution to the gun fight at Glenrowan lasted no more than 15 minutes over the entire 12 hour siege. There were only 8 Victorian police at Glenrowan frm 3.15 am until 7am when more arrived. A total of about 32 police not 50 as you falsely claim.

[@purpledragon259]

In Australia today 500pounds (from 1864) would be worth around $64000Au. Thats quite a bounty.

[@mathewkelly9968]

4:53 yeh dude the divide between the WASP Squatters and the mainly Catholic Selectors is a massive divide in Australia to this day . If anyone in this comment section is against Ned Kelly they come from the thieving protestant privileged class , where as people like me while I share the same surname as Ned im not related are from the selector/ working class and are pro Ned Kelly and hate squatters ( not a modern day squat in a derelict building type squatter , the guy sitting on heaps of stolen land his ancestors paid a pittance for type squatter) . The 'Squatters' are basically contemporaries of your southern plantation owner in an American perspective , except swap cotton for sheep .

[@ingridclare7411]

Yeah, well said. Aussies love Ned, we know how the Kelly family were hounded by squatters and the authorities...

[@leglessinoz]

No matter what he was a criminal. Lots of people were persecuted and picked on and didn't resort to crime.

[@leglessinoz]

​@@ingridclare7411 I don't have any love for Ned. I couldn't care less.

[@samsabastian5560]

@@ingridclare7411 Firstly, almost all the squatters were no longer there when Ned Kelly was at the peak of his criminality. Kelly was mostly stealing from poor settlers, often taking their only work horses, effectively sending them bankrupt. You are claiming the authorities, I suppose you mean government, and the police were hounding the Kelly's. I challenge you to present any evidence at all of that happening? There is not a scrap of evidence anywhere to support your statement. Let's see what you have got?

[@samsabastian5560]

@@leglessinoz The Royal Commission found honest poor settlers were looked after well by the police. They did target the criminality of the Kelly's and rightly so.

[@leah-simonemua8775]

11:47 The magic number is £41,996.07, according to the Bank of England (we/Australia used the Pound Stirling in 1880)