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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Ned Kelly : Selectors, Squatters and Stock Thieves
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'Doug Morrissey’s acclaimed book Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life (2015) was short listed for the prestigious Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History in 2016. This his second book in a trilogy of historical works dealing with Ned’s life and times, shines a much needed light on the bushranger’s pioneer community. The lives of selectors, squatters, and stock thieves are examined revealing a complex community, significantly different from the Kelly myth fiction of squatter tyranny, police oppression and selector poverty and despair. Morrissey’s book holds the key to understanding the Kelly Outbreak, Ned and his Sympathisers and the neglected ‘silent’ majority of respectable, law abiding residents. It reveals the collaborative fulcrum on which community life turned, based on cooperation not conflict. Settling the land is discussed as a successful pioneering endeavor rather than the usual depressing tale of woe. Cultural beliefs, shared values, community goals and how people conducted and expressed themselves in their daily lives, are at the center of this groundbreaking book. Those writing about the bushranger’s life and times from now on, will need to reference Morrissey’s evidence based research or their writings will not be taken seriously.'

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    • West End, South Brisbane - East Brisbane area, Brisbane - South & South West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Connor Court Publishing , 2018 .
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      Extent: xxiv, 374p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 9781925826036

Works about this Work

Gaming Ned Kelly Patrick Morgan , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 64 no. 4 2020; (p. 91-92)

— Review of Ned Kelly : A Lawless Life Doug Morrissey , 2015 single work biography ; Ned Kelly : Selectors, Squatters and Stock Thieves Doug Morrissey , 2018 single work biography
'The Australian mateship myth had some useful-ness when it was formulated in the 1950s by A.A. Phillips and Russel Ward, since it provided an alternative explanation to British-Australian perspectives on Australia at the time. But the time has long passed when it should be looked at uncritically and regurgitated in its original monochrome version.' (Introduction)
Gaming Ned Kelly Patrick Morgan , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 64 no. 4 2020; (p. 91-92)

— Review of Ned Kelly : A Lawless Life Doug Morrissey , 2015 single work biography ; Ned Kelly : Selectors, Squatters and Stock Thieves Doug Morrissey , 2018 single work biography
'The Australian mateship myth had some useful-ness when it was formulated in the 1950s by A.A. Phillips and Russel Ward, since it provided an alternative explanation to British-Australian perspectives on Australia at the time. But the time has long passed when it should be looked at uncritically and regurgitated in its original monochrome version.' (Introduction)
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