Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly movie's closing credits. The Australian band The Kelly Gang formed in 2002, consisting of Jack Nolan, Scott Aplin, Rick Grossman (bassist for Hoodoo Gurus) and Rob Hirst (drummer for Midnight Oil). They recorded one album, "Looking for the Sun" (2004), which features Sidney Nolan's 1945 painting "Kelly in the Bush" on the cover. Other songs about Ned Kelly include those by Paul Kelly ("Our Sunshine" (1999)), Slim Dusty ("Game as Ned Kelly" and "Ned Kelly Isn't Dead"), Ashley Davies ("Ned Kelly" (2001)), Waylon Jennings ("Ned Kelly" (1970)), Redgum ("Poor Ned" (1978)), Midnight Oil ("If Ned Kelly Was King" (1983)), The
The Story of the Kelly Gang 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,