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GUEST,JTT | Ned Kelly to Have a Funeral (50) | RE: Ned Kelly to Have a Funeral | 22 Jan 13 |
Ned Kelly's family were deported to Australia during the worst of the Famine of the 1840s in Ireland, when anyone "stealing" food that was being exported in large amounts would be jailed or shipped away as slave labour. They arrived in Australia as the poorest and most disadvantaged, the butt of prejudice and bullying. It's unsurprising that the child of such trauma would be inexorably sucked into crime. |