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Jan 20, 2013 · More than 130 years after he was hanged, Ned Kelly, Australia's most notorious outlaw, is being buried, an event which reminds the country how divisive he still remains.
This information sheet was updated on 18 September 2023. The State Library is home to some of the most important items relating to Ned Kelly - his suit of armour, the original Jerilderie Letter and his death mask.
Sep 1, 2011 · Ned Kelly is Australia’s most loved and infamous bushranger. Many Aussies believe his last words before his 1880 hanging in a Melbourne jail were “such is life”. That’s a myth, but it does represent the easygoing Aussie ethos.
Dec 16, 2021 · On June 28, 1880, the police in Glenrowan, Australia, believed they had finally caught a notorious outlaw named Ned Kelly. The criminal had shaken up Australia with a series of armed burglaries and was wanted for murdering three officers in 1878.
Ned, the only surviving member of the Kelly Gang, was tried for murder in Melbourne and found guilty. He was executed at Melbourne Goal on 11 November 1880. At the time of his execution his mother, Ellen Kelly, was also in the Melbourne gaol still serving her prison sentence.
Jun 25, 2014 · Although Ned Kelly was laid to rest with his family in 2014, the nation is still divided on whether he was a hero or hellraiser. Finally, 132 years after his state-sanctioned execution, Ned Kelly was re-buried in January 2014 next to his mother, Ellen, in Greta, a small town 10km south of Glenrowan, Victoria.
While time progresses and culture changes, the fascination with the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly remains. Ned has, through his trademark iron helmet and his impassioned rhetoric, an...
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