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November 9th, 2011 
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The family of the notorious bushranger, Ned Kelly is finally being given his remains, 131 years after his execution. The modern-day relatives are considering burying him near his mother in the tiny cemetery of Greta, south of Glenrowan, but a Kelly biographer is warning that the remains are unlikely to be safe from theft, wherever they’re buried.
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ELEANOR HALL: More than a century and a quarter after his execution, Ned Kelly has been granted his final wish – that he receive a proper burial.
The Victorian Attorney General Robert Clark has agreed to return the bushranger’s remains to his family.
They’re still to decide on his final resting place.
But one historian is cautioning that the remains won’t be safe from theft wherever they’re buried, as Samantha Donovan reports.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: A hundred and thirty one years ago this Friday Ned Kelly was executed for the murder of Constable Thomas Lonergan in the infamous gunfight at Stringy Bark Creek.
He was buried in non-consecrated ground at Melbourne Gaol and then later reburied in a mass grave at Pentridge Prison.
The remains were exhumed in 2009 and a couple of months ago DNA testing proved which remains were Kelly’s.
The Victorian Attorney General Robert Clark has now approved the return of the remains to Kelly’s family.
Anthony Griffiths is Ned Kelly’s great-great nephew.
He’s told ABC local radio in Melbourne the family’s wishes are clear.
ANTHONY GRIFFITHS: From a family perspective we want what every family wants, just a dignified family burial.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Jeremy Smith is the senior archaeologist at Heritage Victoria.
He led the team that uncovered Kelly’s remains.
And is satisfied now that the family is to receive them.
JEREMY SMITH: When the Kelly remains were identified, they were just about the best preserved of all of the remains at Pentridge; so they were about 95 per cent complete.
So to get that definitive identification of the remains of Ned Kelly I really never thought that was possible.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: This is a macabre question but you say 95 per cent of the remains, what will actually be buried?
JEREMY SMITH: Look, the Kelly skeleton is almost complete except for the majority of the skull. There is a part of the skull was found buried with the Kelly remains, that is his, that almost proved to me there is no single intact skull of Ned Kelly out there in the community because the fact that a part of it was found with the rest of his skeletal remains shows the complete skull doesn’t exist.
Other than that, the skeleton was largely complete. There are a few elements, I guess his battle wounds from Glenrowan that there’s damage to the toes on one of the foot where we know he was injured at Glenrowan, but largely other than those elements the skeleton is almost complete.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Anthony Griffiths wants his great great uncle to buried somewhere where he’ll be able to rest in peace.
He says the tiny town of Greta south of Glenrowan is one option.
Kelly’s mother Ellen and several of his brothers and sisters and other relatives are buried there.
But Ned Kelly biographer Ian Jones says despite some reports that Kelly wanted to be buried near his mother at the Greta cemetery, the outlaw never actually expressed a preference.
IAN JONES: In his last letter to the governor of Victoria, written on the 10th of November, 1880, he asked that his mother should be released from prison before his execution. Then he said, also if you would grant permission for my friends to have my body that they might bury it in consecrated ground.
That was it, that was the last thing he wrote to the governor.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Ian Joes says that burial near his mother and other relatives at Greta may be appropriate, but he foresees problems.
IAN JONES: The point is it’s a remote cemetery and Kelly graves have been interfered with, even in Banalla cemetery, which is, you know, in a much more closely settled area.
I think Ned Kelly’s grave in Greta, unless it was an absolutely… an absolute bunker, a volt of some kind, I think his body would not be safe, his remains would not be safe.
In the Greta cemetery already there have been some bizarre exercises. The family were really quite upset by one character; he was going around sticking metal rods down into graves to see if someone was buried in them. I think he was probing the graves of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart, two of the members of the Kelly gang who buried together in the Greta cemetery.
Ned, you know, he brings out the worst in some people. Even a headstone, you know, Ned Kelly’s headstone would be incredibly vulnerable to vandalism and theft.
ELEANOR HALL: That is macabre. That’s Ned Kelly biographer Ian Jones ending that report from Samantha Donovan.
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