Published in 2000, Peter Carey’s ‘The True History of the Kelly Gang’ is a critically acclaimed historical narrative. Written from the 1st person perspective of Ned Kelly himself, the text is a work of fiction, and provides the reader with Carey’s perspective on the history of Australia’s most notorious outlaw. Carey laces the novel’s pages with many divergent notions and discourses pertinent to the Ned Kelly story; however, no theme is more prominent than that of justice. Indeed, it is clear that in Peter Carey’s ‘The True History of the Kelly Gang’, that Ned Kelly, and his family and associates, are portrayed by the author as being subjected to many injustices at the hands of the police and authorities. These wrongs are also depicted by Carey,
