NED Kelly aficionado John Suta would like the Victorian Government to spend money saving the last piece of the outlaw’s Greta homestead.
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The Wangaratta solicitor welcomed Planning Minister Richard Wynne committing $1 million to save Kelly’s home at Beveridge.
But Mr Suta now wants cash for a crumbling chimney at the Greta property.
“They should urgently restore that chimney because it’s the only thing remaining of that homestead,” he said.
“People have jumped the wire fence and helped themselves to structural bits and pieces, bricks.”
Kelly biographer Ian Jones said until the 1960s three walls of the home stood and an ironbank slab had been taken to Beechworth’s Ned Kelly vault for preservation.
Premier Daniel Andrews defended his funding the Beveridge repairs.
“We're stepping in to make sure that a very important part of the state's history is properly preserved so that people can understand that part of our story,” he said.
“There are many views on that part of our history.”
