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Ned Kelly's armour on display in the State Library of Victoria. The helmet, breastplate, backplate and shoulder plates show 18 bullet marks. Also on display are Kelly's Snider Enfield rifle and one of his boots. In 1879, Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly devised a plan to create bulletproof armour and wear it during shootouts with the ...
The phrase "such is life", Kelly's probably apocryphal final words, has become "as much a part of the Kelly mythology as the famous armour". [238] "As game as Ned Kelly" is an expression for bravery, [239] and the term "Ned Kelly beard" describes a trend in "hipster" fashion. [240]
A replica of Ned Kelly's armour, designed for the 2003 film Ned Kelly starring Heath Ledger in the title role and now in the collection of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country ...
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The museum held the backplate of the armour of the bushranger Ned Kelly, until 2002 when it donated the piece to the State Library of Victoria to make a complete set of Kelly's armour along with other pieces from Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks.
First-class Marksman (1946) is a painting by the Australian painter Sidney Nolan.. The painting depicts the figure of Ned Kelly in solid black armour, Nolan's most recognisable motif, firing a rifle against the Australian landscape.
Armour of the Kelly gang; B. Ballad for One Gun; Joe Byrne; C. Catching the Kellys; F. ... Ned Kelly (television play) Ned Kelly, the Bushranger; O. Ostracised (play ...
Replica of Ned Kelly's armour, designed for the film and now in the collection of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Ned Kelly is a 2003 bushranger 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.