Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly a "significant respect for authority". Former criminal and celebrity Chopper Read produced numerous paintings of Ned Kelly, alluding directly to Sidney Nolan's imagery. One of Read's paintings features Kelly with a woman's breasts. He explained that "it relates to the fact that I think Kelly was a homosexual, ... I'm not really a fan of his. I'm tired of people calling me the modern-day Ned Kelly." However, Read compared himself with Kelly in some of his paintings. One such self-portrait titled "Tast Ful Old Criminal" ["sic"] was purchased amid controversy by the State Library of Victoria in 2003. "The Story
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",