an unheroic portrait of a violent, unhinged, colonial punk
- Written by Stephen Gaunson, Senior Lecturer, RMIT University

Justin Kurzel’s latest film, True History of the Kelly Gang, marks the tenth screen version of the 1878-1880 Ned Kelly outbreak. It began in 1906 with Charles Tait’s The Story of the Kelly Gang.
Unlike other screen versions, the story of this Ned Kelly is not hagiographic, or...