Ned Kelly
Opinion
Australian culture
School drop-off parking cops, cricket fun police: It’s Australia’s punishment culture
Australians like to think they have a larrikin, rebellious spirit, but they are remarkably tolerant of official intervention and petty-minded bureaucracy.
- by Nick Bryant
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Sydney Film Festival
Australian Succession star’s thriller to premiere at Sydney Film Festival
In Vitro, starring Ashley Zukerman, is a sci-fi thriller filmed in rural NSW.
- by Helen Pitt
Danger prompts need for regulation around e-bikes
Fat bikes are electric motorbikes. Cars and motorbikes need insurance to cover injury costs. Fat bikes and even fast normal bikes need the same and fat bikes need a licence for the kids and our safety.
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Australian soccer
Sam Kerr is the latest victim of Australia’s Ned Kelly syndrome
Australia asks a lot of its cultural and political icons. No surprise then that carrying the burden of the country’s ambitions is more than enough for any mortal being.
- by Nick Bryant
‘We’re still hunted’: Ned Kelly family descendants lose legal bid for cultural protections
Joanne Griffiths, a fourth-generation descendant of Ned and Dan Kelly’s parents, John and Ellen Kelly, said the decision was the latest setback in clashes with Victoria’s legal system that has punished the family for more than a hundred years.
- by David Estcourt
Ned Kelly’s childhood home offers a lesson on historic gardens
Your garden might not date back to a bushranger, but it can still honour what has come before.
- by Megan Backhouse
The escape artist with a ‘volcano in his brain’: Perth’s own Ned Kelly
Our Edward Kelly was a cop-killer who single-handedly brought about a change in gun laws, as colourful a character as his better-known Victorian namesake.
- by Mic Looby
Hundreds of never-before-seen Sidney Nolan artworks up for grabs
Organisers say everyone ‘can have a chance of bidding and buying’ at the auction of more than 200 ‘modestly priced’ artworks in Melbourne.
- by Carolyn Webb
The Indigenous stock woman upending the Ned Kelly myth
Artist Thea Perkins has challenged the myth of Ned Kelly with her life-size mural at Carriageworks, unveiled Wednesday for the Sydney Festival.
- by Linda Morris
Opinion
CBD
Come in, Kelly: Strange case of the missing chief medical officer
Sightings of the once-ubiquitous Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly are now few and far between.
- by Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Enough of this tin-hat weirdo, Australia needs a new cultural hero
Who made it compulsory to make Ned Kelly cameo in every single Australian novel, poem, or painting ever?
- by Eliza Reilly
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