Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Products manufactured a die-cast "Ned Kelly" repeating cap pistol, which was widely marketed in the mid-1940s. Its design bore no obvious attempt at historic relevance. The distinctive homemade armour Kelly wore for his final unsuccessful stand against the police was the subject of a famous series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Ned Kelly is a recurring theme in the work of Ha-Ha (Regan Tamanui), one of Melbourne's foremost street artists. Since 2002, he has put up many stencils of Ned Kelly's face in the laneways of Melbourne, which have become an icon of Melbourne street art. He described Kelly as
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",