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
Ned Kelly (play) Ned Kelly (play) Ned Kelly is a 1942 radio play by Douglas Stewart about the outlaw Ned Kelly. It was later adapted into a stage play. The play was first produced as a radio play on the ABC, 21 June 1942. It became a stage play presented by the Sydney University Dramatic Society, 14 October 1942. It was performed in Melbourne in 1944. The stage version was professionally produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1956 with Leo McKern. The play was adapted for Australian TV in 1959 by the ABC. It focused on two main events – the