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Edward Kelly was an Australian bushranger, gang leader and police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a homemade suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with th
Kelly's boyhood home, built by his father in Beveridge in 1859
According to oral tradition, a young Kelly was awarded this green sash after saving another boy from drowning in a creek. Kelly wore it under his armour during his last stand at Glenrowan. It remains stained with his blood. (Benalla Museum)
Harry Power has been described as Kelly's bushranging "mentor".
Power's capture. Kelly was accused of informing on the bushranger.
In colonial Australia, particularly in the early to mid-19th century, squatting was the occupation of large tracts of Crown land, typically to graze livestock, without formal legal title. Although squ
Ned Kelly
…1866, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the squattocracy and as victims of persecution by the Victoria Police. While a teenager, Kelly was arrested for associating with bushranger Harry Power and served two…
Archibald Clunes Innes, a prominent squatter in the colony of New South Wales, silhouette by W.H. Fernyhough, 1836
Colonial artist S. T. Gill supports Aboriginal land rights and condemns the Squattocracy in Squatter of N. S. Wales: Monarch of all he Surveys, 1788 (above) and Squatter of N. S. Wales: Monarch of more than all he Surveys, 1863 (below).
Warfare between squatters and Aboriginal people in South Australia
1845 political cartoon by Edward Winstanley, critical of Governor George Gipps' land reforms