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NOT OUR ROBIN HOOD*

By Michael E. Daniel / May 7, 2020

NED KELLY: A Lawless Life

by Doug Morrissey, Introduction by John Hirst

Connor Court, Redland Bay
Paperback: 280 pages

Price: AUD$32.95

Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel

All societies and cultures need heroes – they define key cultural beliefs and represent values and behaviours members of a society seek to emulate. Outlaw and bushranger Ned Kelly (1854–1880) is considered by many Australians as a hero.

In the popular consciousness, he stood up to a cabal consisting of a corru…

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