Three most controversial Australian authors linked to St Paul's, Coburg
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
19:30 Sun, 11 Jan 2026
Australia's three most controversial authors have now been convincingly linked to each other and the parish of St Paul's, Coburg.
Mr Edward Kelly, more commonly known as Ned, was the author of the celebrated Jerilderie letter. On top of that, it is often said and easily proven that more has been written about Mr Kelly, who only lived to be twenty five, than any other Australian, living or deceased. Mr Kelly was baptised in St Paul's parish in 1854 by none other than Monsignor Charles O'Hea. By coincidence, my father and I used to live on O'Hea Street.
The former St Paul's school building at 653 Sydney Road burnt down in 1980 and the site was taken over by the King Khalid Islamic College of Victoria (KKCV) in 1983. Randa Abdel-Fattah attended the St Clement of Rome Catholic Primary school and then moved to KKCV for high school. In 2025, the Bendigo Writer's Festival tried to un-invite Randa, all the other speakers pulled out and the festival had to be canceled. The Adelaide Writer's Festival has just tried to pull the same dirty tricks on Randa, most of the speakers and board members quit and the festival may not go ahead.
In 1978, I was baptised in St Paul's Coburg and we lived there at various points during my childhood. I never attended the local school, nonetheless, we lived about two hundred meters away from Randa's school.
If you believe the nonsense people write on social control media, you might have been fooled to think I am now Switzerland's most wanted Australian. Many people ignored the JuristGate reports in the early days of the web site. After the fire at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, the web site has experienced an astronomical increase in traffic. It is one of the few web sites publishing the names, photos and political party affiliations of the people involved in the cover-up. When I created the Software Freedom Institute in 2021, IBM Red Hat almost immediately sued me to try and stop me publishing inconvenient truths about FSFE child labour and the Debian discussion about a possible suicide on our wedding day. It is now almost nine years since the Fellowship elected me as their representative and asked me to simply write the truth.
Ironically, Mr Kelly shot three police officers while I used to row with one of the most distinguished police officers in the state. Go figure.
The bounty offered for Mr Kelly was eight thousand pounds. To put that in perspective, they only spent fifty thousand pounds building the Upfield railway line. The amount they spent to stop the Kelly community robbing the train, and others, was sixteen percent of the budget.
In 2022, the Debianists spent over $120,000 in legal fees to try and censor my blog and have me molested by secret police. In 2026, I'm still here but don't forget Abraham Raji. After they gave all the Debian money to lawyers, volunteers like Mr Raji were asked to contribute their own money at DebConf23. Mr Raji didn't have the money to go on the day trip kayak excursion, they left him to swim alone and he drowned. █
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