Almanac Poetry: The Bluestone Step of the Sherritt Hut

May 2, 2022 by 4 Comments

Kevin Densley considers this ‘perhaps the most chilling episode in Australian bushranging history’ – step into his reflective poetry on the execution-style killing of Aaron Sherritt by the Kelly Gang’s Joe Byrne.

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Almanac Teams: A Real Bushrangers’ Australian Test Cricket Eleven

November 5, 2021 by 9 Comments

As cricket season is now here, KD puts forward an Australian Test cricket team of historical bushrangers, as a companion piece to his Almanac post where he selected a real bushrangers’ football team.

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Almanac History – Ned Kelly the Fugitive: Three Newspaper Articles from 1880

September 3, 2021 by 11 Comments

This Friday’s column from KD is an historical piece highlighting three highly interesting 1880 newspaper reports connected to the Kelly Gang’s activities – especially Ned’s – after the Stringybark Creek murders of October 1878. One report concerns Ned and Joe Byrne being seen together in women’s clothing!

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Poem – Brief Sketches of Members of the Kelly Gang

May 19, 2020 by 9 Comments

Kevin Densley, on the Kelly Gang members.

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ICC World Cup 2015: Following without seeing

March 19, 2015 by 6 Comments

E Regnans’ 2015 ICC World Cup cricket coverage has been sans visual coverage so far. The written word and the internet has sated his cricketing appetite thus far. And butter chicken… (includes the #TimeHonoured E Regnan’s Butter Chicken recipe for free. You’re welcome).

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