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
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly 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",