Ned Kelly
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Oct 29, 2026
Adam ShandHOST
His motto was never to plead guilty, but he invariably did, except when facing a murder charge.
Adam ShandHOST
From Ned Kelly onwards, we've had a peculiar habit of turning criminals into folk heroes.
Adam ShandHOST
Kelly's famous manifesto, the Gerilderie Letter, transformed a common thief and cop killer into a national symbol of resistance.
Adam ShandHOST
The key element of that myth-making was that the full version of the letter wasn't made available to the public until 1930.
Adam ShandHOST
Then it was published again later that year in the Melbourne Herald newspaper.
Adam ShandHOST
It was only in 2000 the public got to see the original, when the handwritten document was donated to the Victorian State Library and made available online.
Adam ShandHOST
By then, the facts of Ned Kelly's criminal exploits had been camouflaged by the legend.
Adam ShandHOST
Kelly must have been disappointed to have his views suppressed before his execution in November 1880.
Winston PetersGUEST
They could make five.
Winston PetersGUEST
And all I'm trying to do is ensure they don't leave for Ned Kelly's land, Australia.
Winston PetersGUEST
Exactly.
Winston PetersGUEST
Why
Belinda JacksonHOST
If you're down here in Melbourne and you've got kids in tow, old Melbourne jail, definitely haunted.
Belinda JacksonHOST
Like, you know, this is when Ned Kelly was hung.
Belinda JacksonHOST
You know, they hung so many people.
Belinda JacksonHOST
They hanged so many people there.
Winston PetersGUEST
They could make $5 billion.
Winston PetersGUEST
And all I'm trying to do is ensure they don't leave for Ned Kelly's land, Australia.
Winston PetersGUEST
Exactly.
Winston PetersGUEST
Why
Matthew SoleHOST
They're very aware of what he's going to try and do.
Holly SoleHOST
The biggest problem with Australia is that we lured people like Ned Kelly and think that assholes like this are on the same level and they're just fucking not.
Holly SoleHOST
They're
Matthew SoleHOST
not.
Matthew SoleHOST
And I've said this before.
Matthew SoleHOST
Ned Kelly was a domestic terrorist.
Holly SoleHOST
Yeah.
Holly SoleHOST
He was going to blow up a train full of cops.
Eilish GilliganHOST
It was like a
Michelle AndrewsHOST
Ned Kelly for a local reference.
Michelle AndrewsHOST
It was like, yeah, they were banks.
Michelle AndrewsHOST
bad but they were against the baddies sometimes yes so I
Michael AdamsHOST
I make the show and my other podcast, Forgotten Australia, in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales on land that's traditionally owned by the Darug and Gundungurra people, and I pay my respects to Aboriginal elders, past and present.
Michael AdamsHOST
In addition to Forgotten Australia, which I've been running since 2018, I'm also the author of three true crime books, Hanging Ned Kelly, The Murder Squad and They'll Never Hold Me.
Michael AdamsHOST
If you'd like to know more about those, there are links in the show notes.
Michael AdamsHOST
Australian Murder and Forgotten Australia are written, recorded and produced by me without the use of artificial intelligence.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
He had Sidney Nolan, who was one of Australia's finest artists, paint a cover for that edition of Angry Penguins just for the Earn poems.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
Nolan would later get praised for his series of paintings depicting the outlaw Ned Kelly.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
Oh,
Zaron BurnettHOST
hell yeah.
Zaron BurnettHOST
For this commission?
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
This commission, like, then kind of informs— Gave him the money to— Well, no, it, like, gives him—this whole experience gives him— Gives him
Zaron BurnettHOST
inspiration to, like, let me take on Ned Kelly.
Elizabeth DuttonHOST
Uh-huh.
Alicia SimmonsGUEST
So he's casting himself
Lee BoucherGUEST
as a kind of Ned Kelly for the modern world.
Lee BoucherGUEST
But my question to you, Alicia, isn't, a question about the story he tells, but it's a question about the story we tell, which is we've talked about institutions, we've talked about violence.
Lee BoucherGUEST
He clearly becomes a violent human.
GurridyulaGUEST
And then you, and then you want to take the side of Australia and, and run down Aboriginal people.
GurridyulaGUEST
Like, um, what happened to the spirit of like Ned Kelly? You know what I mean? Like being, being friends with Aboriginal people.
GurridyulaGUEST
And that's the reason why he lasted so long in the
JoelHOST
bush being traveled through the song lines.
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