In Australia we have this concept called 'Squatters.' These are not the people who go into an empty house and just live there, but rich families who stole government land in order to expand their own farms and holdings. With their money and government connections, including in the police force, they would ultimately get away with these acts. Smaller private farms, such as the Kelly's, where often put under pressure to cheaply sell to these moneyed elites and those who refused... well that is what bought off constabularies are for! This practice is one of the reasons Kelly has the reputation as a folk hero, as many saw his struggle as one against these elites.
Jinx Dragon Your comment is wrong. Squatters did settle on land and there were some issues regarding settlers. However, the Victoria government enacted the Lands Act that gave settlers rights. By 1869 the matter was settled in favour of the settlers. It should also be noted that at the time of the Kelly outbreak there were no squatters left in the Greta area. Kelly was actually stealing horses from poor settlers, often taking their only horse that effectively sent them bankrupt. The police acted properly regarding the Kelly's as the Royal Commission found. Your comment is mythological nonsense.
@@tristanmeadows That was falsely attributed to him by a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald who wasn't even there. It is now common knowledge that Ned Kelly never spoke those words.
The town name is "Bev-eridge" as in the word for drink 😊 Thank you for covering Ned Kelly's story! It's so nice to see Australia's history represented in other countries as this doesn't happen very often. People in other countries often have a completely misconstrued perseption of Australia and know absolutely nothing about us so it's really nice to see some genuine Australian culture and history being put out to the world 🙂 xx
As both an Australian and an avid fan of both you and your channels Simon I just want to extend to you a massive thank you for doing this video on one of our most beloved cultural icons. Ned Kelly is absolutely revered here in Australia, I grew up being played and sung, then singing and playing the Redgum song - made more famous by John Williamson's cover of it - "Poor Ned" (an Australian folk group and singer respectively), the lyrics to which I'll post shortly, but a song sympathetic to Kelly's plight and venerating him as a true Aussie hero. My dad has a large cast iron statue of Ned Kelly in his armour and I myself plan to get a tattoo of Ned Kelly in his armour, pistols blasting, with the Australian and Eureka stockade flags flying behind him with "Such Is Life" emblazoned underneath
The prison on Van Diemen's Island was an absolutely brutal hell on earth. I first learned about it when reading The Immortal Irishman, about Thomas Meagher. Both Meagher's and Kelly's stories deserve to have films made about them. Fascinating stuff.
Van Diemen's Land could be as easy or as harsh as you made it. One of our convicts cruised through his seven year sentnce on a farm; another served ten years of his seven year sentence, including time at the hell-hole of Maria Island.
Katie B Actually Ned Kelly never said those words on the gallows. It was a common saying at the time and he may have said it at some time, but certainly not on the gallows.
LOL so all the Aussie Bogans have tattoo's that have little reference to Ned him self other than a reporters headline on a paper the day after. Shhhhhh No body tell the bogans cos they wont understand.
I live in Kelly Country in the town of Benalla. The green sash is at the museum here in town and Glenrowan is about 20 minutes from Benalla. This has easily become one of my favourite biographics. Such is Life.
People, there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@@TheMDJ2000 Just wanted you to know there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@Blue Terrace Just wanted you to know there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@Paul Muggins Just wanted you to know there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@@edmunns8825 The evidence clearly shows he WAS a murderer. You claim he tried to protect his family. He did nothing of the sort. He shot Constable Fitzpatrick then ran off and left his mother and other relatives to face the music. After robbing the banks not one penny of those funds went to his mother or his sisters, and it was a police officer in Benalla that raised money for the Kelly woman to ensure they did not starve. So if you claim the facts are different, let's see what you have got. Because frankly, you are repeating myths, lies and falsehoods.
@@samsabastian5560 From what I have read most of the loot from the 2 bank robberies was spent on followers and clothing and a new saddle for Kate Kelly. Not one penny was spent trying to get Ellen Kelly out of jail and there was nothing left for Ned's defense during his trial.
Would love to see you more Aussie related videos. Places like Hannan's Find, people like Banjo Paterson and events like the attacks by Japanese and Axis forces on Australia during WW II
Please no. Noone else in this world needs to have to deal with listening to waltzing matilda numerous times, and then sung by shitty country singers over and fucking over again. Its worse torture than waterboarding.
@@samsabastian5560 30 to 60 thousand people signed a petition to spare Ned Kelly of his sentence, are you going to say they were all wrong and deluded as well, and that the harshness of the authorities on the poor was all made up tales and lies. Brad Williams the Dickhead seems a truly fitting title to bestow upon you.
Captain Thunderbolt is a good one it’s weird one of his old hideouts is right near some remains of the Brisbane line it is weird having two bits of Australian history so close
You did a pretty good job telling the short story . My husband's grandmother family lived next farm to the Kellys and were friends, so he knows lots more but he said you did a good job. One thing is what the cops do not tell you is when the cops went out to track Ned before the shoot out, the cops had brought body strechers on their horses so they were going to kill Ned but Ned got in first at the shoot out. Also the memorial rock of the shoot out area is not the real area. My husband knows were it is, not far from the rock area but only he and few really knows were it is as they do not want the area distroyed by tourists. But once again good job.
Laura Frost Your comment is not true. This presentation simply follows the mythological rubbish that has been written by Kelly fans, and it fails miserably in telling the truth. The police did NOT have stretchers, or body straps with them when they went to arrest the Kelly brothers. They did have handcuffs with them to secure their prisoners. Body straps were never issued to Victoria police EVER. Let's see some evidence for your claim that the police were going to kill Kelly.
Awesome doco. Thank you from Australia. As a side note for people that don't know; Mick Jagger played Ned Kelly in a 1970 film. I think it was his only foray into acting. Also, Russell Crowe also recently released a new movie about the gang called 'The True History of the Kelly Gang'. A bit of a bizarre take on the whole episode. Thanks again Biographics crew.
How about one one Britain's Most Famous Prisoner next, Michael Peterson/Charlie Bronson/Charles Salvador? Or Mark "Chopper" Read, another famous Australian convict.
Chopper was a mental case hahah wicked sense of humour But gotta hand it to him, he was on a waiting list for liver transplant and when it was his turn, he saw kids were after him on the list so he gave up his spot
@@andrejdespotovski4788 it doesn't quite work like that. Matching organs is very complex and a suitable match doesn't mean someone else on the list is a suitable recipient.
Good job, about the only thing you missed was his fight with "Wild Wright" was in Gunisses wold records as the longest bare knuckle fight. About 8hrs from memory
Hey there Simon - I just wanna day thanks heaps for putting this bio on. I remember requesting it not so long ago. I was stoked (Aussie for excited) when I saw the title for this one. Cheers Mate 🍺🍺🍺👍
I live in Melbourne and have been to the Old Melbourne Gaol a few times, both during day and night. I Have seen the gallows where Ned was hanged... Ned Kelly's cell is blocked off with barricades and displays, however many of the other cells are completely empty. A few cells down from his I made my way into and was able to close the heavy, solid door on myself. Sat in there for a few minutes. Eerily quite, but somehow had a strange but welcoming calming effect. Imagined myself as a criminal or even Kelly himself contemplating life while awaiting the death sentence. These days the doors on each cell are bolted open, some say the Gaol is haunted.
charles taylor is a liberian who was the ruthless dictator of liberia, his only ties to america was his education and his father’s african american being of possible african american descent. he’s not american at all
What an amazing story. It’s like something Elmore Leonard would write. The schoolteacher stopping the train before it derails and then the body armor. Fiction is rarely this good.
Hi Simon & team. I'm a big fan of the channel and the historical references that you do. 1 of my favourites was how I now look different Charles Manson. Could you please do a video as you do so well on the Irish revolutionaries Michael Collins and Eamon Re Valera a the start of the Irish republic. I think 3 videos would be best to understand all
I live in Glenrowan where the last stand took place. We have a giant statue of Ned Kelly. And it’s Australian to have his face tattooed on your arm along with the southern cross. Such is life.
Beeveridge...NO!!! It's Beveridge. We visited the Kelly house 3 months ago. It's just at the end of a normal street. We Australians have mixed feelings about whether Ned was a hero or not. This is actually a good and accurate overview..well done!!
Whether he was a hero or not in reality isn't the point, he became a symbol of Australian natives in their struggle to form a national identity, one of fairness and resistance to tyranny and the willingness to forgo the strife (religious identity) of the old world to become Australian (racial identity), for better or for worse, I'll let you decide.
Fransisco Goya, the painter, it would be really fascinating if you told about his life and especially the paintings he drew in the later part of his life.
I've been to many of those places. Glenrowan, Euroa, and the goal where he was hanged. His death mask (a mold of his head after it was cut off post-execution). He fought the law and the law won. :(
He is actually responsible for the changing of laws which without his sacrifice would not of happened. So, i guess the law didn't exactly win. Legends like Ned are remembered forever. No one cares who the cops are and most barely remember the names of the other's. But Ned, oh, he is a legend internationally 150 year's or more after his death and will be remembered long in to the future for his brave and courageous stance against tyranny and corruption. How many everyday folk can leave behind a legacy like that? How many of us will be remembered? He is a legend for a reason and he knew that it would proceed his death! Definately a fucking legend by every sense of the word!!!
@@iamhis4749 There is a HUGE monument in the centre of Mansfield erected by the grateful people of Mansfield and surrounding areas in memory of the three police officers who Ned Kelly murdered. No one who murders, robs banks, takes hostages and puts them in harms way, thieves from poor settlers, often taking their only horse and effectively sending them bankrupt, then standing over them threatening more harm if they dared to report the theft to police, qualifies as a legend. At the time of his demise, the population were glad to see the end of his criminal reign. It is only in recent times that Kelly fans have written the rubbish that proliferates now glorifying a very serious criminal, and you have been sucked in big time.
The more I find out about different outlaws the more I appreciate the story of the game Red Dead Redemption 2, they use that armor in the game in an epic shoot out.
That was a very concise, unbiased and impressive review of the Kelly history. I'm reading about Ellen Kelly (Ned's mum) at the moment and the writer is definitely not a Ned fan and it skews alot of the 'information'. Colonial Aussie history is short but certainly packs a punch.
You must work in the field. Im a homeless support worker and I see this with my clients. With the right ( or should I say wrong). Circumstances it can happen to any of us.
Beards are only good to make one look old, hide an ugly face or allow women to fool themselves into believing you are a real man, instead of the emasculated faux man that you really are.
6 warders 2 clergy 1 hangman and the prison governor were all on the gallows at the time of execution and not one of them stated that Ned uttered those words.
Hello biographies Id like to make a suggestion/request. Could you please make a bio about Rudolf Hess. I think it would be really interesting to see and there is not many biographies on the man either. It's just a suggestion thank also I love your guy's channel and hope you keep it up
I have visited Ned's childhood home at Beveridge, with my mum, it's very close to Melbourne and sits in a paddock, unrestored and rotting into the ground, when I last saw it. The story I heard is, a few years ago there was a push to preserve the house but the Victoria Police stopped it because to this day, they still have a hatred for Kelly. I have also been to Greta, I was travelling around Victoria and saw a roadside sign that said 'Greta' and on the spur of the moment, followed it. I found the Greta cemetery, by that stage it was late afternoon. A sign at the front of the cemetery said Ned and his family are buried there in unmarked graves. I witnessed an eerie scene, in the orange glow of the late afternoon light, a couple in their 60's were silently filling in a freshly dug grave with shovels, I walked right past them and they never said a word. It was like something out of a Sergio Leone film. There was nobody else around. For the rest of my life I will never forget this. Ned's relatives still live in the Greta area on a small farm.
Outstanding. Sure makes you wonder dunnit? Were they planting Auntie Petunia or finalising an old grievance? Talking about graveyards, here's one for ya. When I lived down South there was an abandoned house next to an old cemetery. Me an my buds used to hang out there and get efficient. One night we stayed after sunset. I looked out the window and saw an old man in a grey suit standing by a headstone.. .and then he wasn't there. My friend saw it too. We never went back to that place! Years later I was talking to a realtor and she said the place had been abandoned because it was too haunted to live there. Specifically she said people got tired of seeing ghosts in the graveyard! Yow!
The Kelly gang’s armour was made of plough shears and was so heavy that only Ned had the physical strength to wear a helmet and to move around for more than a short distance with it on. There is also a story that Dan Kelly although badly burned survived the Glenrowan fire and that his ‘body’ belonged to a hotel guest.
I saw a movie about Ned Kelly back in the 1990s. It was called "Reckless Kelly" and starred Yahoo Serious, the well known Australian actor. I found it quite entertaining, but they did take some artistic license with the details.
Hi there . My great grandmother (Grace Miller nee Quinn) is Neds cousin. She used to hide food in hollowed out logs for Ned and the gang while they were being chased down. Her father Robert Miller was arrested for being a sympathizer but was soon released due to towns people's outraged at the arrest of Miller. My great Uncle Alexander Miller, Graces brother helped Ned make the armour. Ned's remains were buried at Greta cemetery but there is no grave maker for obvious reasons. Unfortunately somebody stole Ned's skull ( from Pentridge Jail Melb.)so as far as I'm concerned the burial is not complete and Ned will not rest until the skull is returned. If anybody in Australia has any information on the whereabouts of Ned's skull the family would much appreciate any information. 🐨🇦🇺🦘
The road that bypassed his families farm was what is now Sydney Rd, the current freeway coming into Melbourne goes straight past the farm in Beveridge, it’s on the opposite side of the road to the pub!
Thank you for making this video. I went out and bought the movie Ned Kelley i really didnt understand some of it. This explains the whole story very well and not confusing for your veiwers
Charlot Risch. Sadly this video promotes a great deal of mythological nonsense that is simply made up rubbish. It is a disgrace and is not factual at all.
Well the movie with russel crowe made even less sence. In the Russel crowe movie they show Ned and his gang cross dressing. Matter of fact ill say the only thing worth a damn about that whole movie was Russel Crowes performance in that movie and the kid they have playing Ned Kelley
@@charlotrisch5138 The author of the book that led to that film stated that the book was made up fiction. It certainly did not represent in any way the true story.
@@samsabastian5560 Stewart Dawsons nonsense though.Did you know that a high ranking Victorian Police officer had Neds Skull on his desk and used his scrotum to hold his watch ? True Story
@@samsabastian5560 The Police during the outbreak were laughable and inept.The Royal Commission punished all the corrupt cops from top to bottom. The only reason the outbreak ended is because Ned allowed it.
@@samsabastian5560 Says who.......Dawson ? Why wasn't this disputed back in the day ? Why in the last five years has one "man" made the statement ? You Sargeant Willams are a complete Goose
A story within my family goes that my forebears knew the Kellys well and assisted them and left Victoria around 1880. Around 1922 my Uncle Fred, 8 years old at the time was introduced to an old man with burn scars who worked as a timber cutter in areas around Boreen Point Queensland where our family lived and worked as fishermen. He was introduced to Fred as Dan Kelly by my Great Grandfather and it was explained who Dan was. In 1930, my Great Grandfather was asked by a newspaper to identify a man living in Ipswich who claimed to be Dan Kelly. He did and stated that the man was not Dan.
@@manaiabull Well he's bang on correct about the divisiveness of Kelly and his legacy, it depends on who you talk to - in fact you can generally determine an individuals political attitude based on their views on Kelly - an epilogue to the story is that his unmarked grave was subjected to robbers and his skull was stolen and it took ages for them to find it and identify it with DNA =testing.
You should do Bert Hinkler. The British aviator who lived in Australia and died in Italy. From what I remember, he had a cake and a dance named after him
@@scarto3887 People like to romanticise Jesse James, mainly because they sympathised with his confederate leanings. Although, for the record, he did do a lot of what he did for his family (from his perspective)
I used to live in the town of Jerilderie and now I live in Benalla. Last I knew Ned's green sash was on display at our local museum along with a replica armour
@@samsabastian5560 It didn't happen like that... the money they took was used to pay the taxes & owings by families/farms (wives after their husbands were falsely imprisoned and couldn't work the land) in the area that were persecuted by the police. They ripped up debts for land that were found in the safes of the banks so that those "poor settlers" could be free of debt). Ned Kelly never lied, he was a man of honour and genuinely was provoked by police and took a stand against the treatment of poor people.
Hi Simon and the Biographical team, my family and I just returned from Iceland and I heard about that guy Jorgensen Jorgensen whose story I think you will do it justice also there is an Australian twist or so our host proudly told us. I mean this guy apparently stole a country Iceland from Denmark. Hope this one gets up. Thanks for all your videos. They keep me infotained while recovering from bran surgery.
Some of the early parts are pretty inaccurate. 3:00 - Red Kelly wasn't charged with "cattle stealing", he was charged with "unlawful possession of a bullock hide", which means he had meat that he couldn't prove how he had bought. That is a pretty specious charge. Can you prove you bought all the meat in your home? 5:56 - The "horse theft" was a false charge. He was borrowing a horse from from Wright, and it later turned out that Wright had stolen the horse. Ned Kelly was in gaol when the horse was stolen, which is why they dropped the horse theft charge. Charging him with "feloniously receiving a horse" which he had no way to know was stolen is an outrageous miscarriage of justice, and what's more Wright, who actually stole the horse, received HALF the sentence! You also could have mentioned that the arresting officer pistol-whipped Ned until his head became "a mass of raw and bleeding flesh".
Grandmaster Zodd. Ned Kelly knew the horse was stolen and he stated that to two witnesses that gave evidence against him at his trial. Kelly intended to sell the horse for profit. Your comment is following the mythological nonsense that claims Kelly was falsely accused when in fact he was not. Get your facts straight sport. Your comment that the arresting police officer hit him with a pistol is true. It was not long after relatives of Kelly had almost killed the police officer by belting him over the head with a stirrup iron on the end of a stirrup leather. He was almost killed by this brutal attack by Kelly's relatives.
Grandmaster Zodd Wild Wright was convicted of unlawfully using a horse, not stealing it. A much lessor offence at the time. That is why he received only 18 months in gaol.
Its a blanket term for being in possession of a stolen horse. Regardless of stealing the horse yourself, it is still a crime to be in possession of the horse.
Thanks for doing this cheers from Queensland Australia. Also us lower class Australian's absolutely love him he stood up to corrupted authority and absurd laws. A true Aussie legand.
I am admittedly ignorant of the man's legend, but what absurd laws? From the information in this video he was guilty of repeated theft and assault and killed or attempted to kill multiple people. Is there something all of us uninitiated are missing?
@@Yoshimitsu420 if he was a violent thug he would of killed people in the bank robberies you muppet. He only had beef with the police. Also an Australian. Just not a daft muppet.
Could've mentioned the part where Kelly was found guilty at the trial, and Kelly said something to the effect of "see you soon, mate" to the judge. The judge, Sir Redmond Barry, died 12 days after Kelly was hanged.
Here's a fascinating personality you might want to make a video about: Edmund Friedemann Dräcker. Might be a bit difficult to find reliable information about the guy, but Simon's reaction will make the effort worth every drop of sweat.
Thank you for showcasing an Australian icon who still controversial to this day. The ability to highlight a very detailed story with differing accounts in 20 minutes is exceptional. Even in 2020, Neds story continues, with his missing skull still not reunited with his exhumed and relocated body, with documented rumours indicating the skull was a momento sitting on the desk of the then warden of the jail when he was hanged, than disappearing and reappearing decades later, DNA testing indicating it was not Neds. Then the story behind the manufacturing of the gangs armour by a local blacksmith has been long accepted as folklore but recent documents have been unearthed provide clear evidence that this is correct, the blacksmith being a family sympathiser. And his powerful but iconic 'Such Is Life' phrase are the final three words from a longer statement lost to time .👍👍🇦🇺
@@samsabastian5560 why hate on Kelly? Don't like nativism? What's ya thoughts on say, Black Ceasar? Is your problem with direct action? Don't like violent struggle? I really can't understand the why of it? Don't ya like national myths? Like do ya have the same issue with governor Macquarie or the rum corps?
@@kingbillycokebottle5484 Ned Kelly was a vicious criminal of the worst kind. Books by pro Kelly authors present a distorted and untrue picture of this murdering criminal.
In Australia we have this concept called 'Squatters.'
These are not the people who go into an empty house and just live there, but rich families who stole government land in order to expand their own farms and holdings. With their money and government connections, including in the police force, they would ultimately get away with these acts. Smaller private farms, such as the Kelly's, where often put under pressure to cheaply sell to these moneyed elites and those who refused... well that is what bought off constabularies are for!
This practice is one of the reasons Kelly has the reputation as a folk hero, as many saw his struggle as one against these elites.
Jinx Dragon Sounds a lot like what happened in Ireland
@@RexiousX his parents were irish
@@RexiousX Yes the Squatters considered themselves English gentry. Landed gentry.
Jinx Dragon Your comment is wrong. Squatters did settle on land and there were some issues regarding settlers. However, the Victoria government enacted the Lands Act that gave settlers rights. By 1869 the matter was settled in favour of the settlers. It should also be noted that at the time of the Kelly outbreak there were no squatters left in the Greta area. Kelly was actually stealing horses from poor settlers, often taking their only horse that effectively sent them bankrupt.
The police acted properly regarding the Kelly's as the Royal Commission found. Your comment is mythological nonsense.
Not so sure about that if he was taking poor settlers horses why did they support him so much? which they did!
Dude lived out the outlaw lifestyle and went out with the old time equivalent of "It is what it is"
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Ned Kelly
He actually mumbled, "Ah well I suppose..." then he gave up on last words and shuffled off this mortal coil.
the common saying for him is "such is life" same sentiment
@@tristanmeadows That was falsely attributed to him by a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald who wasn't even there. It is now common knowledge that Ned Kelly never spoke those words.
Imagine if Melbourne understood the Eureka stockade in 2020..?
And now you have to fit the 'Eureka Stockade' on one of the others endless channels.
David Aspinall Actually I’d really like to see that. I used to live in Ballarat. Geographics, maybe.
Does this mean we can get the emu war too?
@@aquamelon0087 You really don't want an emu war.
I suggested Burke and Wills.
@@phishezrule Great suggestion.
If we go biographics, how about Sir Douglas Mawson?
The town name is "Bev-eridge" as in the word for drink 😊 Thank you for covering Ned Kelly's story! It's so nice to see Australia's history represented in other countries as this doesn't happen very often. People in other countries often have a completely misconstrued perseption of Australia and know absolutely nothing about us so it's really nice to see some genuine Australian culture and history being put out to the world 🙂 xx
ill learn about aus if you buy me a plane ticket, a farm and a load of goats lol
@@jackbridge5780 😂
Respect from ireland 👍
Fellow Aussie here, fuckin oath mate!
@@aeriesconnelly4070 yes
As both an Australian and an avid fan of both you and your channels Simon I just want to extend to you a massive thank you for doing this video on one of our most beloved cultural icons. Ned Kelly is absolutely revered here in Australia, I grew up being played and sung, then singing and playing the Redgum song - made more famous by John Williamson's cover of it - "Poor Ned" (an Australian folk group and singer respectively), the lyrics to which I'll post shortly, but a song sympathetic to Kelly's plight and venerating him as a true Aussie hero. My dad has a large cast iron statue of Ned Kelly in his armour and I myself plan to get a tattoo of Ned Kelly in his armour, pistols blasting, with the Australian and Eureka stockade flags flying behind him with "Such Is Life" emblazoned underneath
Revered by buggered. Normal people know he was just a very serious criminal, and he is despised.
Cast iron statue? Are you in Pakenham?
Beveridge = beverage
Benalla = Ben-ella
Jerilderie = Jer-ill-der-ee
I'm sure I'll have more to add.
Greta = Gree-ta
Made for a good laugh though.
Lol he tried an we gotta mention, well sort of
Beaver ridge does sound cool tho 😆
irked me to no end
I'm stunned that you followed up my request for a Biographics on Ned. Thanks to your team
Big part of being an Aussie, even in ‘I am australian’ the lyrics ‘I’m ned kelly on the run’ it represents a massive part of Australian history.
The Victorian police reputation hasn't really changed much over the years I see.
DRUNK The reputation of Victoria police in the Kelly era was very much intact as the Royal Commission found.
At least they have slowed down on shooting mentally ill people....
i laughed way too hard at this haha! victorian cops the worst of the bunch!
Definitely still a shower of oinks that abuse the citizens.
Their reputation of bastardry have been given new lease of life with the excuse ( they always had an excuse ) of controlling the Chinese Flu.
As an Aussie I can confirm this man's face is still everywhere
What is a bogan
Or you have a Sidney Nolan painting on your wall...
@@robertstoudt4578 what a flog
I see wood chainsaw statues of him in places
Well I've seen his face on posters in every second fuckers home I go to he's like idol worshipped
It's the little things why i like this channel.
Gaol.
theINFAMOUSbigCHOOFoner. Yes!
Well spotted!
That’s how we spell it here in Aus
That's the Australian spelling. Probably the only word I actually prefer the American spelling for.
Comes from the Irish translation of jail 👍
The prison on Van Diemen's Island was an absolutely brutal hell on earth. I first learned about it when reading The Immortal Irishman, about Thomas Meagher. Both Meagher's and Kelly's stories deserve to have films made about them. Fascinating stuff.
Actually, there is a movie about him with Heath Ledger playing Ned Kelly. I though it was pretty good
A recent movie "the true history of the kelly gang" was released in 2019. It had Russell crow in it
First motion picture in history was about the Kelly gang and was first shown about 20 years after the death of Ned
Let's not talk about the poor effort in the 70s starring Mick Jagger - of all people on earth - as Ned.
Van Diemen's Land could be as easy or as harsh as you made it.
One of our convicts cruised through his seven year sentnce on a farm; another served ten years of his seven year sentence, including time at the hell-hole of Maria Island.
“Such is life” is the tattoo of choice for many Aussie bogans.
Katie B Actually Ned Kelly never said those words on the gallows. It was a common saying at the time and he may have said it at some time, but certainly not on the gallows.
@@samsabastian5560 I think it might have been a reporter writing about the hanging.
LOL so all the Aussie Bogans have tattoo's that have little reference to Ned him self other than a reporters headline on a paper the day after. Shhhhhh No body tell the bogans cos they wont understand.
Also the Southern Cross tattoo, as though it’s somehow unique to Australia or our flag.
@@SerenityChaos1975 its national pride at its worst
I live in Kelly Country in the town of Benalla. The green sash is at the museum here in town and Glenrowan is about 20 minutes from Benalla. This has easily become one of my favourite biographics. Such is Life.
I’d love a video on Australian General John Monash, one of the first true modern generals
Me too. A great man, and as a Jew, had to battle the Melbourne establishment all his life.
People, there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@@TheMDJ2000 Just wanted you to know there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@Blue Terrace Just wanted you to know there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
@Paul Muggins Just wanted you to know there's a great video on General Monash by my second favourite history UA-cam commentator (after Simon Whistler) Indi Neidell on his channel WHO DID WHAT IN WW1. Just type "General John Monash" (and if you really wanna be specific "who did what in ww1") into your UA-cam search bar and you'll find it : )
“I do not wish to give this order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow’s son outlawed and must be obeyed”
Ned Kelly
@@edmunns8825 The evidence clearly shows he WAS a murderer. You claim he tried to protect his family. He did nothing of the sort. He shot Constable Fitzpatrick then ran off and left his mother and other relatives to face the music. After robbing the banks not one penny of those funds went to his mother or his sisters, and it was a police officer in Benalla that raised money for the Kelly woman to ensure they did not starve. So if you claim the facts are different, let's see what you have got. Because frankly, you are repeating myths, lies and falsehoods.
@@samsabastian5560 From what I have read most of the loot from the 2 bank robberies was spent on followers and clothing and a new saddle for Kate Kelly. Not one penny was spent trying to get Ellen Kelly out of jail and there was nothing left for Ned's defense during his trial.
@@sheepdog4041 Fitzpatrick was NOT given an instruction not to go to the Kelly home. Again, you are a liar.
@@samsabastian5560 He hasn't deleted another comment has he?
@@samsabastian5560 lmfao, it's pretty funny that you're so in the know regarding events that happened nearly 200 years ago.
Holy cow, a non Australian UA-camr pronouncing Melbourne correctly!
Yes!!!! How nice right haha
mel-born btw..
@@MB-rn6gh yeah nah. In 'Straya it's Mel-bin!!!
Australia is an English speaking country, how the hell do you guys get “Mel-bin” out of something spelled Melbourne?
@@Acminy it was a joke lol. im aussie
Would love to see you more Aussie related videos. Places like Hannan's Find, people like Banjo Paterson and events like the attacks by Japanese and Axis forces on Australia during WW II
lrg162 Paddy Hannan!!
Please no. Noone else in this world needs to have to deal with listening to waltzing matilda numerous times, and then sung by shitty country singers over and fucking over again. Its worse torture than waterboarding.
Or the Japanese occupation of Northern Australia....
If anyone's interested in what Australia was like during the time of Ned Kelly 'The Proposition' is a great movie that really captures it
How about the first ever video recorded was of the ned Kelly gang story played out 😂
Suggested this a couple of times and you have done a really wonderful and balanced look into his history.
Cheers.
Thanks Simon. As a proud Aussie, it's great to hear you biograph Ned Kelly.
Stephen. What a pity it's all fiction.
@@samsabastian5560 what do you mean fiction the story of ned Kelly?
@@fated4glory Yes, nothing presented here is true.
@@samsabastian5560 30 to 60 thousand people signed a petition to spare Ned Kelly of his sentence, are you going to say they were all wrong and deluded as well, and that the harshness of the authorities on the poor was all made up tales and lies.
Brad Williams the Dickhead seems a truly fitting title to bestow upon you.
Australian crime is so interesting and colorful. Ned Kelly is just the tip of the Iceberg.
Captain Thunderbolt is a good one it’s weird one of his old hideouts is right near some remains of the Brisbane line it is weird having two bits of Australian history so close
@@tobiojr you and Ben Vergunst have my attention, spin your stories lads. 🍿
Yes it is. I love watching docos about the Melbourne underworld.
David H so I am guessing you have watched underbelly
@@tobiojr surprisingly I have not, but I have been watching 'tough nuts: Australia's hardest criminals' on you tube
Well done Biographics . A job very well done 👍🏼
You did a pretty good job telling the short story . My husband's grandmother family lived next farm to the Kellys and were friends, so he knows lots more but he said you did a good job. One thing is what the cops do not tell you is when the cops went out to track Ned before the shoot out, the cops had brought body strechers on their horses so they were going to kill Ned but Ned got in first at the shoot out. Also the memorial rock of the shoot out area is not the real area. My husband knows were it is, not far from the rock area but only he and few really knows were it is as they do not want the area distroyed by tourists. But once again good job.
Laura Frost Your comment is not true. This presentation simply follows the mythological rubbish that has been written by Kelly fans, and it fails miserably in telling the truth.
The police did NOT have stretchers, or body straps with them when they went to arrest the Kelly brothers. They did have handcuffs with them to secure their prisoners.
Body straps were never issued to Victoria police EVER. Let's see some evidence for your claim that the police were going to kill Kelly.
Awesome doco. Thank you from Australia.
As a side note for people that don't know; Mick Jagger played Ned Kelly in a 1970 film. I think it was his only foray into acting.
Also, Russell Crowe also recently released a new movie about the gang called 'The True History of the Kelly Gang'. A bit of a bizarre take on the whole episode.
Thanks again Biographics crew.
That should read "acting" - it's a crappy movie
“SUCH IS LIFE”
-Ned Kelly
"Uhghhhllghrghhhhlgghhh"
Ned Kelly
I love this quote and I use it all the time but no one I know gets it lmao
He never said that
Did he say that or was it attributed to him after he'd written it in his last letter to his family the day before his hanging?
According to the museum in Glenrowan he said: "oh well... I suppose it has come to this"
How about one one Britain's Most Famous Prisoner next, Michael Peterson/Charlie Bronson/Charles Salvador? Or Mark "Chopper" Read, another famous Australian convict.
Chopper was a mental case hahah wicked sense of humour
But gotta hand it to him, he was on a waiting list for liver transplant and when it was his turn, he saw kids were after him on the list so he gave up his spot
Chopper!
@@andrejdespotovski4788 it doesn't quite work like that. Matching organs is very complex and a suitable match doesn't mean someone else on the list is a suitable recipient.
Good job, about the only thing you missed was his fight with "Wild Wright" was in Gunisses wold records as the longest bare knuckle fight. About 8hrs from memory
Calvin That fight may well be a load of fiction.
Ned Kelly's house is about 10min from my house here in Victoria.
Haaa! I'm on the edge of Kelly Country.
@@phishezrule Wicked! You live in Beveridge?
Me too 🤣 Benalla boy right here
Dad is that you
Beechy
Hey there Simon - I just wanna day thanks heaps for putting this bio on. I remember requesting it not so long ago. I was stoked (Aussie for excited) when I saw the title for this one. Cheers Mate 🍺🍺🍺👍
Joseph Perreault awesome 😎
RexiousX What is in this video is fictitious nonsense. Not a fact anywhere to be seen.
@@samsabastian5560 Do you know who Peter Carey's cescendants are. They were as cutless and shaky also
"The Wild Colonial Boy" by the Clancy Brothers
There was a wild colonial boy ned kelly was his name
I was hearing this song in my head watching the video
@@ScarletRebel96 Except that the song is about someone else Jack Doolan.
DR Hooks version is a good one.
Poor Ned by Redgum.
When are Rockstar Australia gonna make Grand Theft Horse?
@Troy Bailey where'd you hear that then?
RDR2?
RDR2 is literally so based on bushrangers more than the American west that the characters themselves even considered moving to Australia.
@@Mitchincredible Negative...There's no way a Cowboy would wear hats like those blokes especially with that nose strap.
@@ajaxslamgoody9736 Technically only John was for a time a cowboy.
I live in Melbourne and have been to the Old Melbourne Gaol a few times, both during day and night. I Have seen the gallows where Ned was hanged... Ned Kelly's cell is blocked off with barricades and displays, however many of the other cells are completely empty. A few cells down from his I made my way into and was able to close the heavy, solid door on myself. Sat in there for a few minutes. Eerily quite, but somehow had a strange but welcoming calming effect. Imagined myself as a criminal or even Kelly himself contemplating life while awaiting the death sentence. These days the doors on each cell are bolted open, some say the Gaol is haunted.
Please make one on Charles Taylor, the ruthless American dictator of Liberia!!
charles taylor is a liberian who was the ruthless dictator of liberia, his only ties to america was his education and his father’s african american being of possible african american descent. he’s not american at all
Taylor wasn't American.
@The_Jaguar_ Knight He is.
@The_Jaguar_ Knight Yeah, and I also edit his Wiki page on a regular.
What an amazing story. It’s like something Elmore Leonard would write. The schoolteacher stopping the train before it derails and then the body armor. Fiction is rarely this good.
Should’ve sued Stan Lee for stealing his iron man idea.
Mark Patten: that’s definitely food for thought 🙂
If thats the case so should every knight from midevel europe lol
Yes! Australia had the first Ironman! 😂
Bio graphics can you do a video on Hirro Onoda the Japanese soldier you didn't surrender until 1974 twenty nine years after WW2 had ended
Didn't he return to the forest afterwards?..It's been a while since I've read anything about that story..
Christopher Brasher I think he went to South America because the Japan he returned to apparently wasn’t the one he remembered.
They did a "today i found out" about it about a year ago i think.
I work in a warehouse and came across a book recounting his personal experiences just a few weeks ago. Sounds like a hell of a guy.
@biographics
Great video as usual. This was by far the best telling of Ned Kelly's story I've heard, and I'm from Australia too!
DeltaFrost117 But it's almost totally fiction from top to bottom.
@@samsabastian5560 they left out all the Police corruption
Hi Simon & team. I'm a big fan of the channel and the historical references that you do. 1 of my favourites was how I now look different Charles Manson. Could you please do a video as you do so well on the Irish revolutionaries Michael Collins and Eamon Re Valera a the start of the Irish republic. I think 3 videos would be best to understand all
I live in Glenrowan where the last stand took place. We have a giant statue of Ned Kelly. And it’s Australian to have his face tattooed on your arm along with the southern cross. Such is life.
Sambo's mummy The only people who have Ned Kelly tattoos, are of low intelligence and ignorant of the true story.
Thge only people who have a tattoo of Ned Kelly and ignorant fools. Is that where you fit?
Finally an Australian bio :) I haven’t watched all your stuff yet but I was wondering when we would pop up 😁
Beeveridge...NO!!! It's Beveridge. We visited the Kelly house 3 months ago. It's just at the end of a normal street. We Australians have mixed feelings about whether Ned was a hero or not. This is actually a good and accurate overview..well done!!
Whether he was a hero or not in reality isn't the point, he became a symbol of Australian natives in their struggle to form a national identity, one of fairness and resistance to tyranny and the willingness to forgo the strife (religious identity) of the old world to become Australian (racial identity), for better or for worse, I'll let you decide.
The comments from all the Aussies is very entertaining and enlightening. Great video as well!
Fransisco Goya, the painter, it would be really fascinating if you told about his life and especially the paintings he drew in the later part of his life.
I've been to many of those places. Glenrowan, Euroa, and the goal where he was hanged. His death mask (a mold of his head after it was cut off post-execution). He fought the law and the law won. :(
He is actually responsible for the changing of laws which without his sacrifice would not of happened.
So, i guess the law didn't exactly win.
Legends like Ned are remembered forever.
No one cares who the cops are and most barely remember the names of the other's.
But Ned, oh, he is a legend internationally 150 year's or more after his death and will be remembered long in to the future for his brave and courageous stance against tyranny and corruption.
How many everyday folk can leave behind a legacy like that?
How many of us will be remembered?
He is a legend for a reason and he knew that it would proceed his death!
Definately a fucking legend by every sense of the word!!!
@@iamhis4749 what book/books did you read to come to form this opinion of Ned?
@@iamhis4749 There is a HUGE monument in the centre of Mansfield erected by the grateful people of Mansfield and surrounding areas in memory of the three police officers who Ned Kelly murdered. No one who murders, robs banks, takes hostages and puts them in harms way, thieves from poor settlers, often taking their only horse and effectively sending them bankrupt, then standing over them threatening more harm if they dared to report the theft to police, qualifies as a legend.
At the time of his demise, the population were glad to see the end of his criminal reign. It is only in recent times that Kelly fans have written the rubbish that proliferates now glorifying a very serious criminal, and you have been sucked in big time.
The more I find out about different outlaws the more I appreciate the story of the game Red Dead Redemption 2, they use that armor in the game in an epic shoot out.
Great work Simon and whoever wrote this.
Simon any chance of a biographics on Danny ?
David Price. What is presented here is a load of fictitious nonsense.
Thanks for doing this!
I've lived here 20 years and because it is contraversial I've only heard the odd detail here and there!
That was a very concise, unbiased and impressive review of the Kelly history. I'm reading about Ellen Kelly (Ned's mum) at the moment and the writer is definitely not a Ned fan and it skews alot of the 'information'. Colonial Aussie history is short but certainly packs a punch.
It's the classic story of a life spiraling out of control.
You must work in the field. Im a homeless support worker and I see this with my clients. With the right ( or should I say wrong). Circumstances it can happen to any of us.
The only man with a better beard then Santa Denmark Leader And Simon Whistler
John Brown
Beards are only good to make one look old, hide an ugly face or allow women to fool themselves into believing you are a real man, instead of the emasculated faux man that you really are.
John Brown is a shout but the king is still Franz-Joseph of austria
@@walkertongdee Not a lot of shaving equipment those days in the bush especially on the run.
@@walkertongdee as apposed to a real man like you? You're just jealous cause you can't grow little more than peach fuzz yet.
Could do one on Dick Turpin, one of the UKs most notorious highwaymen.
A source of pain and tears
Alias Richard Palmer. Just a horse thief
'Such is life' - such a famous Aussie saying.
Andy Ned Kelly never said those words on the gallows. Just another Kelly myth that has been disproven.
@The_Jaguar_ Knight Do it - please
@@samsabastian5560 Who proves he did not Sargeant Brad Williams......Dawson ? What a fn joke Hey Aztec how is that feather collection coming along ?
6 warders 2 clergy 1 hangman and the prison governor were all on the gallows at the time of execution and not one of them stated that Ned uttered those words.
loving the music in the background.
Hello biographies Id like to make a suggestion/request. Could you please make a bio about Rudolf Hess. I think it would be really interesting to see and there is not many biographies on the man either. It's just a suggestion thank also I love your guy's channel and hope you keep it up
I have visited Ned's childhood home at Beveridge, with my mum, it's very close to Melbourne and sits in a paddock, unrestored and rotting into the ground, when I last saw it. The story I heard is, a few years ago there was a push to preserve the house but the Victoria Police stopped it because to this day, they still have a hatred for Kelly.
I have also been to Greta, I was travelling around Victoria and saw a roadside sign that said 'Greta' and on the spur of the moment, followed it. I found the Greta cemetery, by that stage it was late afternoon. A sign at the front of the cemetery said Ned and his family are buried there in unmarked graves. I witnessed an eerie scene, in the orange glow of the late afternoon light, a couple in their 60's were silently filling in a freshly dug grave with shovels, I walked right past them and they never said a word. It was like something out of a Sergio Leone film. There was nobody else around. For the rest of my life I will never forget this. Ned's relatives still live in the Greta area on a small farm.
Outstanding. Sure makes you wonder dunnit? Were they planting Auntie Petunia or finalising an old grievance?
Talking about graveyards, here's one for ya. When I lived down South there was an abandoned house next to an old cemetery. Me an my buds used to hang out there and get efficient. One night we stayed after sunset. I looked out the window and saw an old man in a grey suit standing by a headstone.. .and then he wasn't there. My friend saw it too. We never went back to that place! Years later I was talking to a realtor and she said the place had been abandoned because it was too haunted to live there. Specifically she said people got tired of seeing ghosts in the graveyard! Yow!
@@bretthess6376 man, that story gave me shivers!
The Kelly gang’s armour was made of plough shears and was so heavy that only Ned had the physical strength to wear a helmet and to move around for more than a short distance with it on. There is also a story that Dan Kelly although badly burned survived the Glenrowan fire and that his ‘body’ belonged to a hotel guest.
They all had helmets. The story that Dan and Steve Heart escaped the fire is just that a story . They both died in the hotel
I saw a movie about Ned Kelly back in the 1990s. It was called "Reckless Kelly" and starred Yahoo Serious, the well known Australian actor. I found it quite entertaining, but they did take some artistic license with the details.
Hi there . My great grandmother (Grace Miller nee Quinn) is Neds cousin. She used to hide food in hollowed out logs for Ned and the gang while they were being chased down. Her father Robert Miller was arrested for being a sympathizer but was soon released due to towns people's outraged at the arrest of Miller. My great Uncle Alexander Miller, Graces brother helped Ned make the armour. Ned's remains were buried at Greta cemetery but there is no grave maker for obvious reasons. Unfortunately somebody stole Ned's skull ( from Pentridge Jail Melb.)so as far as I'm concerned the burial is not complete and Ned will not rest until the skull is returned. If anybody in Australia has any information on the whereabouts of Ned's skull the family would much appreciate any information. 🐨🇦🇺🦘
Rumor has it his skull was used as a paperweight in some office . No respect at all !
Omg you have done Ned Kelly! Thank you so much, always wanted this 🙏🙏🙏
The road that bypassed his families farm was what is now Sydney Rd, the current freeway coming into Melbourne goes straight past the farm in Beveridge, it’s on the opposite side of the road to the pub!
The First and Last hotel I think it is called
His last words were "I suppose it has come to this" not "such is life"
Ned Kelly also delivered a very interesting and introspective performance in the 2020 visual novel “Necrobarista”... a legend, through and through!☕️👻
Eric, Only to uneducated dimwits.
Thank you for making this video. I went out and bought the movie Ned Kelley i really didnt understand some of it. This explains the whole story very well and not confusing for your veiwers
Charlot Risch. Sadly this video promotes a great deal of mythological nonsense that is simply made up rubbish. It is a disgrace and is not factual at all.
Well the movie with russel crowe made even less sence. In the Russel crowe movie they show Ned and his gang cross dressing. Matter of fact ill say the only thing worth a damn about that whole movie was Russel Crowes performance in that movie and the kid they have playing Ned Kelley
@@charlotrisch5138 The author of the book that led to that film stated that the book was made up fiction. It certainly did not represent in any way the true story.
Another great one! I love watching these after a long day. I bet you would do a great video on Davey Crockett
I've been looking forward to this
I live about 5 minutes away from where he had his last stand off “pretty cool”
“Such Is Life”
The call of bogans everywhere
@@curtisbranagan So true, yet Ned Kelly never uttered those words on the gallows. Mythological nonsense as usual.
@@samsabastian5560 Stewart Dawsons nonsense though.Did you know that a high ranking Victorian Police officer had Neds Skull on his desk and used his scrotum to hold his watch ? True Story
Good vid. He most certainly is a enigmatic figure here in Australia!
So happy youve done one on Ned Kelly!
Aaron but its full of mythological nonsense.
@@samsabastian5560 how so?
@@samsabastian5560 The Police during the outbreak were laughable and inept.The Royal Commission punished all the corrupt cops from top to bottom. The only reason the outbreak ended is because Ned allowed it.
@@scarto3887 The RC punished no one.
Fiction again from an insane Kelly fool.
“Such is life” birth of many bogan tattoos 😂
What's a bogan tattoo? I know it's a tattoo, wazza bogan?
He never said it.. his last words were "so it's come to this" but the reporter misunderstood.
@@Pablo-nc6qu The reporter made it up to enhance his story.
@@samsabastian5560 Says who.......Dawson ? Why wasn't this disputed back in the day ? Why in the last five years has one "man" made the statement ? You Sargeant Willams are a complete Goose
It's more of a tattoo of the Australian criminal class than bogans
A story within my family goes that my forebears knew the Kellys well and assisted them and left Victoria around 1880. Around 1922 my Uncle Fred, 8 years old at the time was introduced to an old man with burn scars who worked as a timber cutter in areas around Boreen Point Queensland where our family lived and worked as fishermen. He was introduced to Fred as Dan Kelly by my Great Grandfather and it was explained who Dan was. In 1930, my Great Grandfather was asked by a newspaper to identify a man living in Ipswich who claimed to be Dan Kelly. He did and stated that the man was not Dan.
Hi! We’re family friends I see! I found out just a few days ago that I’m distantly related to Ned Kelly.
Yay! I'm from Kelly-Country, know those places and stories.
Do you ever hear them sound like that?
It was painful lol
@@manaiabull Well he's bang on correct about the divisiveness of Kelly and his legacy, it depends on who you talk to - in fact you can generally determine an individuals political attitude based on their views on Kelly - an epilogue to the story is that his unmarked grave was subjected to robbers and his skull was stolen and it took ages for them to find it and identify it with DNA =testing.
@@glosh3091 Not true Glosh 30. Ned Kelly's head has never been recovered. It was not taken by grave robbers. That is nonsense.
@@samsabastian5560 Not nonsense - check Kelly's Wikipedia article - sorted in 2011
Simone you hit the bullseye with this one!! Great video!! Keep up the good work!!
Robert Sever, this video follows the mythological nonsense that distorts the truth. It is a very poor presentation and not factual at all.
@@samsabastian5560 Agreed they left so much Police corruption and failures out.
You should do Bert Hinkler. The British aviator who lived in Australia and died in Italy. From what I remember, he had a cake and a dance named after him
..in Missouri, we call Ned the Jesse James of Austrialia :)
Funny that! We call Jessie James the Ned Kelly of America! 😳 We don't really...😁
Or you could just call him Ned Kelly because that’s who he is
Only Ned fought for his family and friends.....not for himself.
@@scarto3887 People like to romanticise Jesse James, mainly because they sympathised with his confederate leanings. Although, for the record, he did do a lot of what he did for his family (from his perspective)
In America everybody says they are related to Jesse James and in australia all the gingers say they're related to Ned Kelly
I love outlaw stuff- hope you do more!
I live very close to many of these places and the mispronunciations are quite funny
Agreed, as someone living in Melbourne.
Haha yes
benAHLLA
GrEEta greta
Thank you for the upload cheers
I used to live in the town of Jerilderie and now I live in Benalla. Last I knew Ned's green sash was on display at our local museum along with a replica armour
Ned and the Kelly gang were heroes.
Malcolm - hero's do not murder, hold up banks, rob from poor settlers, use stand over tactics, take hostages or lie. Your comment is nonsense.
Blue lives matter, these cop killers shouldn't be glorified
@@samsabastian5560 It didn't happen like that... the money they took was used to pay the taxes & owings by families/farms (wives after their husbands were falsely imprisoned and couldn't work the land) in the area that were persecuted by the police. They ripped up debts for land that were found in the safes of the banks so that those "poor settlers" could be free of debt). Ned Kelly never lied, he was a man of honour and genuinely was provoked by police and took a stand against the treatment of poor people.
Ned Kelly was a Hero, and even to this day he is still a legend, Hey simon, if your ever down under mate, beers are on me.
Gets Melbourne right, butchers most of the other town names lol.
There's a Melbourne in UK I believe, that might be why lol
@@maelnaught when he said Jerilderie it took me a second to realize what he meant because it sounded completely off
To be fair, Aboriginal names like Jerilderie are easy to butcher if you have never heard of them.
@@coolstar2398 It was waaaaaaaaaay off!
Beaver Ridge?
Hi Simon and the Biographical team, my family and I just returned from Iceland and I heard about that guy Jorgensen Jorgensen whose story I think you will do it justice also there is an Australian twist or so our host proudly told us. I mean this guy apparently stole a country Iceland from Denmark. Hope this one gets up. Thanks for all your videos. They keep me infotained while recovering from bran surgery.
This was really good. You mispronounced some Australian towns names but... How can you know that when writing this :) Good vid.
Some of the early parts are pretty inaccurate.
3:00 - Red Kelly wasn't charged with "cattle stealing", he was charged with "unlawful possession of a bullock hide", which means he had meat that he couldn't prove how he had bought. That is a pretty specious charge. Can you prove you bought all the meat in your home?
5:56 - The "horse theft" was a false charge. He was borrowing a horse from from Wright, and it later turned out that Wright had stolen the horse. Ned Kelly was in gaol when the horse was stolen, which is why they dropped the horse theft charge. Charging him with "feloniously receiving a horse" which he had no way to know was stolen is an outrageous miscarriage of justice, and what's more Wright, who actually stole the horse, received HALF the sentence!
You also could have mentioned that the arresting officer pistol-whipped Ned until his head became "a mass of raw and bleeding flesh".
Grandmaster Zodd. Ned Kelly knew the horse was stolen and he stated that to two witnesses that gave evidence against him at his trial. Kelly intended to sell the horse for profit.
Your comment is following the mythological nonsense that claims Kelly was falsely accused when in fact he was not. Get your facts straight sport. Your comment that the arresting police officer hit him with a pistol is true. It was not long after relatives of Kelly had almost killed the police officer by belting him over the head with a stirrup iron on the end of a stirrup leather. He was almost killed by this brutal attack by Kelly's relatives.
Grandmaster Zodd Wild Wright was convicted of unlawfully using a horse, not stealing it. A much lessor offence at the time. That is why he received only 18 months in gaol.
“Feloniously receiving a horse” 😂
Its a blanket term for being in possession of a stolen horse. Regardless of stealing the horse yourself, it is still a crime to be in possession of the horse.
Read "Black Snake", by Leo Kennedy. Awesome read.
Just finished it..glad I read it as i've only read the myth feeding kelly gang books up until now 👍
Now I usually look forward to Biographics videos but man I've been looking forward to this one!
I requested this 2 weeks ago! Thanks Simon!
One of the greatest outlaws of all time and one of the most underrated outlaws of all time.
Don't you mean one of the most vicious murderers of all time?
Thanks for doing this cheers from Queensland Australia.
Also us lower class Australian's absolutely love him he stood up to corrupted authority and absurd laws. A true Aussie legand.
Agreed, and you know, from his description It doesn't look like the Victorian Police have changed much in the intervening years.
I am admittedly ignorant of the man's legend, but what absurd laws? From the information in this video he was guilty of repeated theft and assault and killed or attempted to kill multiple people. Is there something all of us uninitiated are missing?
Lol he was a murderer and a thief and should been killed sooner stealing the horses of poor farmers what a "legand"
@@BTheBlindRef as an Aussie I can assure you he was just a violent thug
@@Yoshimitsu420 if he was a violent thug he would of killed people in the bank robberies you muppet. He only had beef with the police. Also an Australian. Just not a daft muppet.
Could've mentioned the part where Kelly was found guilty at the trial, and Kelly said something to the effect of "see you soon, mate" to the judge.
The judge, Sir Redmond Barry, died 12 days after Kelly was hanged.
Prophetic.
Here's a fascinating personality you might want to make a video about: Edmund Friedemann Dräcker. Might be a bit difficult to find reliable information about the guy, but Simon's reaction will make the effort worth every drop of sweat.
Great one. You should do one on The Black Donnellys from Ontario Canada. Would be a good one
Please do a bio on Ragnar Lothbrok!
It would be a 5 second video saying "Ragnar Lothbrok existed"
Nobody has decent sources beyond this.
If it wasn’t for Ned Kelly saving my great grandfather from drowning I wouldn’t exist!
Georgiana's Studio And how many don't exist because Ned Kelly murdered them? He was a low life if ever there was one.
@@samsabastian5560 she was just saying how thankful she is for her grandfather and herself to be alive Beacuse of him. Geez! No need to be so mean.
Best comment ever!!
Red dead 2 had a similar mission where you had to wear that kind of armor
I think the next Red Dead should be set in Australia
@@Tob1Kadach1 Ned Kelly would make an awesome protagonist, however, his story is well known
@@spart3499 only to Australians
Thank you for showcasing an Australian icon who still controversial to this day. The ability to highlight a very detailed story with differing accounts in 20 minutes is exceptional. Even in 2020, Neds story continues, with his missing skull still not reunited with his exhumed and relocated body, with documented rumours indicating the skull was a momento sitting on the desk of the then warden of the jail when he was hanged, than disappearing and reappearing decades later, DNA testing indicating it was not Neds. Then the story behind the manufacturing of the gangs armour by a local blacksmith has been long accepted as folklore but recent documents have been unearthed provide clear evidence that this is correct, the blacksmith being a family sympathiser. And his powerful but iconic 'Such Is Life' phrase are the final three words from a longer statement lost to time .👍👍🇦🇺
Andrew Ned Kelly did not say those words on the gallows. Another Kelly myth.
@@samsabastian5560 why hate on Kelly? Don't like nativism? What's ya thoughts on say, Black Ceasar? Is your problem with direct action? Don't like violent struggle? I really can't understand the why of it? Don't ya like national myths? Like do ya have the same issue with governor Macquarie or the rum corps?
@@kingbillycokebottle5484 Ned Kelly was a vicious criminal of the worst kind. Books by pro Kelly authors present a distorted and untrue picture of this murdering criminal.
I'm an Aussie and I've seen his death mask at Old Melbourne Gaol and it is absolutely terrifying.