by Christine Kenneally BH | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
The idea that science writing can be important, entertaining and even literary is long overdue in Australia. Great thanks to the University of New South Wales Press for blowing preconceptions away with the nation's inaugural volume of Best Science Writing, which I...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ned Kelly’s legend is all the more glorious for the power of his voice, which you can still hear loud and clear if you read the 1879 Jerilderie letter, a 7400-word account of his actions and a plea for better treatment of Irish settlers in his State. Kelly dictated...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t that long ago that scientists believed they could read your soul in the lumps on your head. Here are phrenology reports for Ned Kelly and Frederick Deeming (Thank you Michael Newcity for the latter). To start, Ned’s phrenologist strikes a note of...
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 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...
