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Mary Ann Bugg (7 May 1834 – 22 April 1905) was a Worimi bushranger, [1] one of two well-documented women bushrangers in mid-19th century Australia. She was an expert horse rider and bush navigator who travelled with her bushranging partner and lover Captain Thunderbolt.
Elizabeth Jessie Hickman (née Hunt; 6 September 1890 – 1936) was an Australian bushranger.She had multiple aliases but is often referred to as The Lady Bushranger.In the 1920s she established herself as leader of a gang of cattle thieves in the area that is now Wollemi National Park.
Winter is one of only three female bushrangers known from nineteenth-century Australia. The other two are Aboriginal women: Mary Cockerill (‘Black Mary’) and Mary Ann Bugg (‘Mrs Thunderbolt’).
Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer.One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger. After murdering three policemen in a shootout in 1878, the gang was outlawed, and after raiding towns and robbing banks into 1879, earned the distinction of having the largest reward ever placed on the heads of bushrangers.
Truganini was born around 1812 [9] at Recherche Bay (Lyleatea) in southern Tasmania. [10] Her father was Manganerer, a senior figure of the Nuenonne people whose country extended from Recherche Bay across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Bruny Island (Lunawanna-alonnah).
Dolly Gurinyi Batcho (c. 1905 - 1973) was a Larrakia woman who served on Aboriginal Women's Hygiene Squad, 69th, as a part of the Australian Women's Army Service. She was also a signatory of the 1972 Larrakia Petition; Beetaloo Jangari Bill (c1910 - 1983) a Gurindji and Warumungu Elder from Elliott, Northern Territory.
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