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Ned Kelly: Hero Or Villain?

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Ned Kelly – Hero or Villain?

Whether Ned Kelly us actually a ruthless criminal, or a hero who fought for the rights of the marginalized is a topic that has been debated since the days of Kelly himself. However, with the amount of crimes that Ned committed in the name of ‘justice’, it is hard to say that he is in fact a hero.

Ned Kelly was born in the small town of Beveridge in Victoria. He was the first of eight children to John Kelly and Ellen, née Quinn (five daughters and three sons) and attended school in in Avenel until the death of his father on the 27th of September 1866. His newly poor mother was forced to move them to a hut in Eleven Mile Creek where Ellen’s father, James, owned a cattle run. Kelly left school around this time to

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