This is no ordinary bushranger, but a man pushed too far, fighting not just for himself but his class. |
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A third film of this period was based upon a popular play in which a bushranger was conspicuously featured. |
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Well, even though he was executed 122 years ago, bushranger Ned Kelly continues to have a strange hold over the nation's imagination. |
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The bushranger was hanged in Melbourne in 1880 after being captured in a shoot-out with police in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria. |
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He fell foul of the police at an early age, was befriended by a local bushranger, and at 15 was imprisoned for three years on horse stealing charges. |
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Further along, in the historic gold-rush town of Beechworth, you can lunch at excellent cafes and see the honey granite courthouse where bushranger Ned Kelly stood trial. |
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In 1986 the light comedy Crocodile Dundee, starring popular comedian Paul Hogan as a bushranger displaced in New York City, also became a major worldwide hit. |
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Australia's most famous bushranger Ned Kelly protested against the poverty and injustice of a British class system shipped here along with the convicts. |
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In the city centre, visit the Old Melbourne Gaol, where Australia's infamous bushranger Ned Kelly was hung, and wander through grand Flinders Street Station. |
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The Man from Snowy River and Ned Kelly were filmed in Victoria's High Country, where horse and walking trails intersect with snow gums, mountain views and bushranger history. |
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The sale also presents the chance to buy full-or half-sisters to Alandi, Septimus, Sequoyah, Red Clubs, Bushranger, Rafha, Adlerflug, and Elusive Wave. |
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