TRACKING A BUSHRANGER

IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST NOTORIOUS BUSHRANGER, TAKE ON THIS ADVENTUROUS TOUR THROUGH NORTH-EAST VICTORIA

WORDS AND PHOTOS GREG POWELL

A FEW decades back, there was a newspaper cartoon depicting a stylised Ned Kelly holding a gun on a bank clerk. Ned’s speech bubble proclaimed, “You will thank me when tourism is invented!” Well, tourism has well and truly been invented and many towns in north-east Victoria and southern New South Wales certainly benefit from visiting tourists seeking bushranger history. The sites that now cater for visitors are well worth looking at, but it is still possible to get away from these popular places to get a true feel for the spirit of the life and times of the Kelly gang. POWERS LOOKOUT – THE OLD FOX AND THE CUB, 1870 HARRY Power was transported to Tasmania from Ireland and later turned to crime. He escaped from Pentridge Prison in Melbourne in 1869…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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