"Glenrowan, Victoria Glenrowan is a small town located in the Wangaratta local government area of Victoria, Australia. It is 236 kilometres north-east of Melbourne and 14 kilometres from Wangaratta and near the Warby Ranges and Mount Glenrowan. At the , Glenrowan had a population of 963. Glenrowan was named after farmers James and George Rowan who ran farms in the area between 1846 and 1858. The township was settled in the late 1860s, the Post Office opening on 22 February 1870. It is famous for the bushranger Ned Kelly, who made his last stand and was eventually captured there in"
"Ned Kelly Edward ""Ned"" Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer. One of the last bushrangers, and by far the most famous, he is best known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born in the British colony of Victoria as the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died shortly after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector"
"for their treatment of women and the poor, noting that ""they weaved a certain halo of romance and rough chivalry around themselves, which was worth a good deal to them"". Non-fiction Fiction Ned Kelly Edward ""Ned"" Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer. One of the last bushrangers, and by far the most famous, he is best known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born in the British colony of Victoria as the third of eight children to Irish"
"The line was opened to Jerilderie in 1884, extended to Berrigan in 1896, Finley in 1898 and Tocumwal in 1914. The line was closed south of Jerilderie in 1986 and to the north in 1988. Jerilderie Jerilderie is a town in the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest town in the Murrumbidgee Council local government area. At the , Jerilderie had 1,070 people. It can be found along the Newell Highway south-west of Sydney and north of the Victorian state border. Jerilderie's post code is 2716. This is also where Ned Kelly and his"
"filmed on Totness Rd. Totness, South Australia Totness consists mainly of industrial zoned areas. It is commonly referred to as Mount Barker or Littlehampton but is actually a town of its own. There is no street sign indicating you are entering Totness. Its Windmill is the oldest surviving building in the Hahndorf - Mt Barker area. It is about from Mount Barker, and from Littlehampton, but the towns have merged due to growth. It is also home to the Totness Recreation Park. Totness was first subdivided in the 1880s, without regard to its contours. Part of the movie 'Ned Kelly',"
"the so-called youth orientated – particularly starring one of the new folk heroes. A.H. Weiler of the ""New York Times"" said, ""Ned Kelly"" grossed $808,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $7,716,400 in 2009 dollars. Ian Jones later wrote and produced (with his wife Bronwyn Binns) a mini-series on Kelly, ""The Last Outlaw"" which aired on the Seven Network in 1980. Australian actor John Jarratt starred as Kelly The actual body armour costume worn by Jagger is on display at the Queanbeyan City Library, New South Wales, and the initials ""MJ"" are scratched on the inside."
"technology, such as telegraphy, made it increasingly difficult for bushrangers to evade capture. Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly Gang led by Ned Kelly, who were captured at Glenrowan in 1880, two years after they were outlawed. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the Victoria Police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he killed three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on"
"the lawlessness they represented. Some bushrangers, most notably Ned Kelly in his Jerilderie letter, and in his final raid on Glenrowan, explicitly represented themselves as political rebels. Attitudes to Kelly, by far the most well-known bushranger, exemplify the ambivalent views of Australians regarding bushranging. The impact of bushrangers upon the areas in which they roamed is evidenced in the names of many geographical features in Australia, including Brady's Lookout, Moondyne Cave, Mount Tennent, Thunderbolts Way and Ward's Mistake. The districts of North East Victoria are unofficially known as Kelly Country. Some bushrangers made a mark on Australian literature. While running"
"Mount Rothwell Mount Rothwell is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located to the north east of the You Yangs hills, between Bacchus Marsh and Werribee. It is the location of the Mount Rothwell wildlife sanctuary and the historic Mount Rothwell homestead, built in 1873 for Pastoralist Robert Chirnside, (listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (H1107), inherited on his father's death in 1918 by his grandson Dr James Chirnside, and occupied by the Chirnside family until about 2000. The homestead was used for filming of the 2003 ""Ned Kelly"", and was purchased in 2000 along with the estate by the Mount"
"Jerilderie Jerilderie is a town in the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest town in the Murrumbidgee Council local government area. At the , Jerilderie had 1,070 people. It can be found along the Newell Highway south-west of Sydney and north of the Victorian state border. Jerilderie's post code is 2716. This is also where Ned Kelly and his Gang robbed the 'Jerilderie Bank'. Jerilderie is an irrigated farming centre, the area around Jerilderie produces a quarter of all tomatoes grown in Australia, as well as being a prime Merino stud region. Additionally Jerilderie"
"including ""Robbery Under Arms"" (1920), ""Ned Kelly"" (1970), ""The Year My Voice Broke"" (1987), """" (1995), ""Finding Joy"" (2003), ""The Discontinuity"" (2009) and ""Australia's Most Haunted"" (2013). Braidwood, New South Wales Braidwood is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council. It is located on the Kings Highway linking Canberra with Batemans Bay. It is approximately 200 kilometres south west of Sydney, 60 kilometres inland from the coast, and fifty-five from Canberra. Braidwood is a service town for the surrounding district which is based on sheep and cattle grazing, and forestry operations. European"
"Julian Cross and David Gedge. The last person to be executed was Angus Murray in 1924, the same year the gaol was closed. Edward ""Ned"" Kelly, born sometime between June 1854 and June 1855, was an Irish-Australian bushranger, and was seen by some as merely a cold-blooded killer, while to others he was a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. As a youth he clashed with the Victoria Police, and after an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. He killed three policemen, and subsequently the colony proclaimed Kelly and"
"his home for the first nine years of his life. Ned's birth was not officially recorded. Ned was born in December 1854 at Beveridge on the Kelly farm near the Big Hill (now known as Mount Fraser). John 'Red' Kelly sold his farm for £80 and headed further north up the Old Sydney Road to Avenel in 1863 where they rented the banks of the Hughes Creek. It is said that on the train heading south to Melbourne after his capture at Glenrowan in 1880, as he approached Beveridge Station he pointed to the left and said, ""See that little"
"not published in full until 1930. The original and both handwritten copies have survived. Edward (Ned) Kelly was born in Victoria, Australia, around 1855. As a teenager he was in with the police and was arrested several times and served time in prison. In mid-1878, following his mother's imprisonment on perjured police evidence and feeling that the police were harassing him, Kelly took to bushranging with his brother, Dan, Joe Byrne, and Steve Hart. They became known as the Kelly Gang. After the Kelly Gang shot dead three policemen at Stringybark Creek in Victoria in October 1878 they were declared"
"River Band is named after Little River after seeing the name on a road sign on their way to a gig in Geelong. Some scenes for the Australian television series """" and ""Angry Boys"" were filmed at Little River, although it was referred to as the fictional town of 'Dunt'. Little River also featured in the movie ""Mad Max"", with Little River Road being used as the movie's infamous ""Highway 9"". Some parts of Little River and surrounding areas were filmed in the Australian television drama series, ""Blue Heelers"". Also, in the nearby You Yangs, the 2003 film, ""Ned Kelly"""
"rejuvenation following the decision by Wesley College, Australia's largest co-educational private school, to establish a campus for Year 9 students in the town. Opened in 2000, about 80 students take up residency in the Wesley Clunes Residential Learning Village in the centre of town and become part of the local community for an eight-week period each term. where they learn how to take care of themselves for when they grow up. Many of the external scenes and some internal scenes in the 2003 film ""Ned Kelly"", starring Heath Ledger, were shot in Clunes. The Old State Bank in Fraser Street"
"Totness, South Australia Totness consists mainly of industrial zoned areas. It is commonly referred to as Mount Barker or Littlehampton but is actually a town of its own. There is no street sign indicating you are entering Totness. Its Windmill is the oldest surviving building in the Hahndorf - Mt Barker area. It is about from Mount Barker, and from Littlehampton, but the towns have merged due to growth. It is also home to the Totness Recreation Park. Totness was first subdivided in the 1880s, without regard to its contours. Part of the movie 'Ned Kelly', starring Mick Jagger, was"
"Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (; 22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. His oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art. Sidney Nolan was born in Carlton, at that time an inner working-class suburb of Melbourne, on 22 April 1917. He was the eldest of four children. His parents, Sidney"
"the July the 17th, 2017. A. Bertram Chandler's novel ""Kelly Country"" (1983) is an alternate history in which Kelly leads a successful revolution. The result is that Australia becomes a world power, but the Australian Republic which Kelly founded degenerates into a hereditary dictatorship. ""Our Sunshine"" (1991) by Robert Drewe was the basis of the 2003 film, ""Ned Kelly"", that starred Heath Ledger. Peter Carey's novel ""True History of the Kelly Gang"" was published in 2000, and was awarded the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Terry Pratchett's novel ""The Last Continent"" has a character called ""Tinhead Ned"","
"Glenrowan railway station Glenrowan is a closed station located in the town of Glenrowan, on the North East line, in Victoria, Australia. The station is located at the highest point of the line north of Seymour, with grades of 1 in 75 in both directions. In June 1880, the station was the site of what became the last stand of Ned Kelly and his gang, with a monument located at the station today. The station site was initially a ballast siding, but there were no plans to build a station at the site. However, an earth platform was provided for"
"is also a central location for popular tourist attractions in the area such as Glenrowan (the scene of Ned Kelly's last stand) and the King Valley gourmet region. The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Ovens & King Football League. Moyhu receives Television from the local Transmission site near Wodonga and Beechworth. However it does not receive Prime7 News like the Wodonga-Albury region does. Prime7, WIN, Southern Cross Nine, ABC, SBS. Moyhu, Victoria Moyhu is a small town in North East Victoria, Australia. It is situated approximately 2.5 hours' drive from Melbourne, and 25 minutes from"
"film in the world, made in 1906, was ""The Story of the Kelly Gang"". In the 2003 ""Ned Kelly"" movie starring Heath Ledger as Ned Kelly, the part of Dan Kelly was played by Irish actor Laurence Kinlan. Orlando Bloom played the part of Joe Byrne. Dan Kelly (bushranger) Daniel Kelly (1 June 1861 – 28 June 1880) was an Australian bushranger and outlaw. The son of an Irish convict, he was the younger brother of the bushranger Ned Kelly. Dan and Ned killed three policemen at Stringybark Creek in northeast Victoria, near the present-day town of Tolmie, Victoria. With"
"they were outlawed. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the Victoria Police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he killed three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and helmet, was captured and sent to jail. He was hanged for murder at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880. His daring and notoriety made"
"“Australian” by a US Marshall accompanying the players. Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian outlaw and bushranger whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country where he is viewed by some as a Robin Hood-like figure. A melodrama, ""The Kelly Gang"", by Arnold Denham, was popular in Australia in the late 1890s. Other plays inspired by the story include: ""Ned Kelly"", a large-scale musical by Reg Livermore and Patrick Flynn, played in Adelaide and Sydney in 1977 and 1978. In 2012, Matthew Ryan's stage play ""Kelly"""
"to its opening warning against breaking the law. The movie was reasonably successful. The Kelly Gang The Kelly Gang is an Australian feature-length film about the Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly. The film was released in 1920, and is the second film to be based on the life of Ned Kelly, the first being ""The Story of the Kelly Gang"", released in 1906. Filming took place in late 1919 in a temporary studio in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg with additional scenes shot on the outskirts of Melbourne at Croydon and Warburton. At the time the New South Wales government"
"long and includes the key scene of Kelly's last stand. In director Warwick Thornton's 2017 film ""Sweet Country"", a ""travelling picture show"" in 1920s Northern Territory shows ""The Story of the Kelly Gang"" to residents of an outback town, who cheer for the bushranger. The film's protagonist, an Aboriginal outlaw, is also named Kelly, but vilified and hunted by the same townspeople. According to ""The Australian"", Thornton, an Aboriginal, ""has little time"" for depictions of Ned Kelly as a larrikin folk hero and Irish victim of British colonisation. ""When there was a raiding party,"" said Thonrton, ""and a massacre happened,"
"Court. The outlaw Ned Kelly had many links to Beechworth – he spent time in HM Prison Beechworth and fought a famous boxing bout with Isaiah ""Wild"" Wright in the back of a local hotel. Aaron Sherritt and Joe Byrne of the Kelly Gang came from the Woolshed goldmining camp, outside of Beechworth town. It was in Beechworth gaol that twenty-one men, suspected Kelly Gang supporters, relatives and other sympathisers were held without trial or evidence for over three months, by the Chief Commissioner of Police Captain Standish, under the ""Outlawry Act"". George B. Kerferd (1836–1889) a longtime resident of"
"Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian outlaw and bushranger whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country where he is viewed by some as a Robin Hood-like figure. A melodrama, ""The Kelly Gang"", by Arnold Denham, was popular in Australia in the late 1890s. Other plays inspired by the story include: ""Ned Kelly"", a large-scale musical by Reg Livermore and Patrick Flynn, played in Adelaide and Sydney in 1977 and 1978. In 2012, Matthew Ryan's stage play ""Kelly"" premiered at Queensland Theatre Company, focusing on Ned"
"(1986) was shot in Fremantle and starred Nicole Kidman. In the 2004 film ""Thunderstruck"", four devoted AC/DC fans travel across Australia from Sydney to Fremantle to bury their best friend next to Bon Scott's grave. Shooting for the 2006 film ""Last Train to Freo"" took place outside Fremantle railway station, while scenes in the 2010 musical film ""Bran Nue Dae"" were shot in Fremantle's West End. Other films shot and/or set in Fremantle include ""Wind"" (1992), ""Teesh and Trude"" (2003) and ""Two Fists, One Heart"" (2008). The children's television series ""The Sleepover Club"" and ""Streetsmartz"" were set and shot in"
"The Kelly Gang The Kelly Gang is an Australian feature-length film about the Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly. The film was released in 1920, and is the second film to be based on the life of Ned Kelly, the first being ""The Story of the Kelly Gang"", released in 1906. Filming took place in late 1919 in a temporary studio in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg with additional scenes shot on the outskirts of Melbourne at Croydon and Warburton. At the time the New South Wales government had banned films on bushranging but this movie escaped it, most likely due"
"Ned Kelly (2003 film) Ned Kelly is a 2003 Australian historical drama film based on Robert Drewe's 1991 novel ""Our Sunshine"". Directed by Gregor Jordan, the film's adapted screenplay was written by John Michael McDonagh. The film dramatises the life of Ned Kelly, a legendary bushranger and outlaw who was active mostly in Victoria, the colony of his birth. In the film, Kelly, his brother Dan, and two other associates—Steve Hart and Joe Byrne—form a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and English tensions that arose in 19th century Australia. Heath Ledger stars in the title role, with"
"Joe Byrne Joseph Byrne (21 November 1856 – 28 June 1880) was an Australian bushranger born in Victoria to an Irish immigrant. A friend of Ned Kelly, he was a member of the ""Kelly Gang"" who were declared outlaws after the murder of three policemen at Stringybark Creek. Despite wearing the improvised body armour for which Ned Kelly and his gang are now famous (and which he is reputed to have designed), Byrne received a fatal gunshot during the gang's final violent confrontation with police at Glenrowan, in June 1880. Joe Byrne was born in 1856 in Woolshed, on the"
"Ned Kelly and his associates when they produced the mini-series, ""The Last Outlaw"", which was shown in 1980. He also wrote several reference books about the Kelly gang including the bestseller ""Ned Kelly: A Short Life"" and ""The Fatal Friendship: Ned Kelly, Aaron Sherritt and Joe Byrne"". In his work, Jones draws extensively on oral history interviews with descendants of the members of the Kelly Gang, in addition to decades of archival research. Jones also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1970 biopic film ""Ned Kelly"" which starred Mick Jagger. Jones died in Melbourne on 31 August 2018. In December 2006,"