Dating back to our first feature film, we explore Australian cinema's enduring fascination with our most infamous bushranger.

Ned Kelly, played by Mick Jagger, gives a rousing speech to fellow Irishmen calling on them to rally behind his fight for a Republic of Victoria. 

Ned and Joe enact revenge on their traitorous friend Aaron Sherritt. 

Introductory scene from Justin Kurzel's True History of the Kelly Gang (2019).

Mick Jagger stars in Ned Kelly (1970).

Dennis Hopper on location shooting Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora, Australia, 1976).

Superintendent Cobham (Frank Thring) tells (unseen) members of the press that Dan Morgan will not be tolerated if he returns to Victoria.

Morgan (Dennis Hopper) has been shot while stealing a horse. He is rescued by an outcast Aboriginal man, Billy (David Gulpilil), who nurses him back to health in the mountains.

Exhausted and increasingly incoherent, Morgan (Dennis Hopper) bails up a wealthy family, the McPhersons, as the Victorian police close in.

The Proposition contains a poetic and dark lyrical tone, both in its narrative dialogue and also through a highly stylised and painterly audiovisual synthesis.