Editing Bushranger (section)

==Public perception==
[[File:Joe Byrne 1880.jpg|thumb|300px|The body of [[Joe Byrne]], strung up as a curiosity in Benalla, 1880. Photograph by [[John William Lindt]].]]
In Australia, bushrangers often attract public sympathy (cf. the concept of [[social bandits]]). In [[History of Australia|Australian history]] and [[iconography]] bushrangers are held in some esteem in some quarters due to the harshness and [[anti-Catholicism]] of the colonial authorities whom they embarrassed, and the romanticism of the lawlessness they represented. Some bushrangers, most notably [[Ned Kelly]] in his [[The Jerilderie Letter|Jerilderie letter]], and in his final raid on [[Glenrowan, Victoria|Glenrowan]], explicitly represented themselves as political rebels. Attitudes to Kelly, by far the most well-known bushranger, exemplify the ambivalent views of Australians regarding bushranging.