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Stuart says - One of the most perplexing claims
of the modern Ned Kelly legend is that Kelly and his famous bushranger
gang aspired to establish a Republic of North-Eastern Victoria, which
was to be
triggered by the destruction of a special police train at Glenrowan in
1880,-
I say this could be true.
Stuart says;
While there is no mention of republican aims in any historical record of
Ned Kelly's day, nor in the numerous comments of those connected with or
held prisoner by the Kelly gang on various occasions, nor in the work of
early historians of the outbreak who knew the Kellys, their gang, their
sympathisers, or the pursuing police.
However,
I'd say fair enough and understandably so, that there was no recorded mention of a republic for
N.E. Victoria was ever published as, in those times that would have been seen
as treason and you'd be executed.
In my book pictured above-
Ned Kelly Australian Iron-icon A Certain Truth,
wherein I paint a different picture, I show that if hundreds of
small farmer settlers - spread out over 8000 sqr km of N.East.Victoria, -
they rose up and supported the Kellys to bring about change to counter
the
self-interest of an elite Government, and the Kelly uprising may have
represented a self governing movement that was no small mob of local
trouble makers as Stuart perports. These underdogs were intent to bring
about change and followed the
resistance the Kellys exhibited.
Dr.Stuart Dawson's investigation provides a close historical analysis of the
construction of what he sees as a romantic myth of a Kelly-led Republic of North - Eastern
Victoria in much popular Australian history.
My book counters Stuarts thesis and can be purchased online at-
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