recorded with Jason and Chloe Roweth
available on the the CD, Above the Creek Bed
Open your eyes to Australia
When those shots resounded
Bodies lying on the bushland floor
They crossed a line and forever
Their name would be outlaw
© Jim Low
On my last trip to Victoria in July this year, I deliberately planned to spend the night in Benalla so I would have time to visit Stringybark Creek. This was the place where, on 26 October 1878, the Kelly gang, comprising Ned and Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, confronted a party of policemen who were out searching for them.
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