Through the late 1800s, Ned Kelly and his gang of bushrangers looted, pillaged, and terrorized the authorities in ...

The anniversary of Peter Carey’s Booker-winning masterpiece prompts a revisit of the literature and cinema telling the most ...

He tells the life story of the celebrated outlaw Ned Kelly (1854-1880), who, together with a little band of mates, drove the lawful authorities to distraction for a few memorable years and ever after.

It's a story that became Aussie folklore, but for the descendants of those involved, the ripple effects of that frosty night 145 years ago would be felt for generations.

Peter Carey's latest novel demolishes this line of thinking. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the famed outlaw Ned Kelly scrawls out his life story on scraps of paper and gives voice to an ...