The Fitzpatrick Petition – More Questions than Answers.

I sit down today, to pen an addendum to my previous article “Defending History: Sergeant Joseph Ladd Mayes verses Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick” in which I addressed the assessment by obstetrician David MacFarlane of my great great grandfather’s conduct during the Kelly Affair and his later sacking of Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick. Sergeant 1st Class Joseph LaddContinue

Defending History: Sergeant Joseph Ladd Mayes verses Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick.

The history of bushranging in Australia and specifically the state of Victoria is a colourful, compelling and controversial cornucopia of established facts, counter narratives and competing perspectives. This is no better illustrated than in the history surrounding the events of the so-called “Kelly Affair” – the chronicle of, arguably, Australia’s most notorious bushranger Edward “Ned”Continue