by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
There's an amazing chapter still to be told about the investigation into the "Kelly" skull. In order to even get to the DNA analysis, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has to conduct an historical investigation that had more twists than a...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
My great-grandfather, J.J. Kenneally, wrote the first pro-Kelly book. J. J., who grew up in the same country town as the Kellys, was ten when Ned Kelly was hung, so he is surely writing from experience when he says local children at the time used to play “the...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 31, 2011 | Books, J.J. Kenneally, Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly's brother, Jim Kelly, "reviews" J.J.'s book. My favorite part is his description of the book as "an effective exterminator of the hive of journalistic wasps" that plagued his family.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Illustration by Jeff Fisher for The Monthly. If a property bubble pops but no one reports it, does anyone know it has happened? I wrote about the property market and real estate journalism in Australia for The Monthly in May. For the piece, I spoke to bloggers like...