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Bushrangers were armed robbers and outlaws who resided in the Australian bush between the 1780s and the early 20th century. The original use of the term dates back to the early years of the British colonisation of Australia, and applied to transported convicts who had escaped into the bush to hide from the authorities.
One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born and raised in rural Victoria, the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died in 1866, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household.
The genre showed how the bushrangers' intimate connection with the bush allowed them to skirt the law and engage in outlaw activity. [12] Many of the films made before the ban glorified bushrangers, rather than making them seem criminal. [13] Early bushranger films include Bushranging in Northern Queensland and Robbery of a Mail Coach by ...
The pilot episode establishes the character of Jack Keenan and his friend Dan Sinclair, bushrangers in 1860s' colonial New South Wales.Their robberies target those travelling by horse and cart as they usually carry with them a large amount of valuables.
When writing his 1882 bushranging novel Robbery Under Arms, Rolf Boldrewood drew inspiration from Law. Not long after Law's death, Boldrewood passed through Gulgong and made inquiries about the bushranger.
Ben Hall (9 May 1837 – 5 May 1865) was an Australian bushranger and leading member of the Gardiner–Hall gang.He and his associates carried out many raids across New South Wales, from Bathurst to Forbes, south to Gundagai and east to Goulburn.
John Owen (30 April 1830 – 9 April 1865), better known by his alias Daniel Morgan, was an Australian bushranger and outlaw. Active mainly in the Riverina of New South Wales and northern Victoria, he committed numerous raids and robberies and murdered at least four men, including two constables.
A different story of his execution is given in Great Bushrangers and Outlaws, a book about the history of bushranging published in 1974, which portrays Poo in a positive manner. In this version, Poo has last words , those being a request to a hospital warder that "he [does] not wish to see or speak to any of his countrymen".