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