Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Writing / Main Posts lyrebird Duncan Hose Ned Kelly as landscape – Sid Nolan’s idea Ned Kelly member of the family Ned Kelly as bully Ned Kelly softy keeper of paycocks. Ned Kelly as ploughshare Rosella can of condensed Ned Kelly as the auld Surfers Paradise of lagoons and shrikes Ned Kelly as a green Ribbon – twenty years in yr. pocket Ned Kelly as Red Kelly in drag If you believe Peter Carey Ned Kelly as the October mow- & old scotch foreskin jokes Ned Kelly as lunatic fringe of desert spring, as Meaghan Morris Leaving Tenterfield in her teens, or Newcastle forever Ned Kelly as bushel of Tasmanian heads Ned Kelly as a Mentone bookie in suede Fletcher Jones Jeans. Ned Kelly as Melton junkie. Ned Kelly as Bon Scott’s Letters to Adelaide & sister Irene Ned Kelly as a TV celebrity’ s dog wading the scum at St Kilda sniffing at the golden band of freeway i’ th’ West Ned Kelly as downtown Melbourne shamrockery :conspiracy of clover, ‘trefoil’, or when you’re German Dreiblattbogen ‘De Tird Oiye’ say Dubliners, meaning pagan punch Ned Kelly as the night-jar, bone-jar little jar of bones we’d worship if we c’ld find it if we c’ld find it. Duncan Hose Duncan Hose is runner-up in the 2009 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. He is a poet and postgraduate scholar, currently living in Melbourne. More by Duncan Hose › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.