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    Ned Kelly, villain

    Nov 30, 2018 3 minutes
    By Dr Doug Morrissey

    It seems there is no escaping Ned Kelly and his sordid tale of bushranging and murder.

    The Victorian Government recently pledged one million dollars of taxpayers’ money to restore, and develop as a tourist hub, Kelly’s birthplace at Beveridge. A vacant block of land at Glenrowan, the site of Ann Jones’ pub where Kelly made his last stand against the police, entered the news recently when it went up for sale. The Beveridge home, a site on the Ned Kelly tourist

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