>mfw Australia could have had a revolution in 1880

>>2746449
No it couldn't have. The Governor of Victoria at the time was already considered pretty far left with his policies and no one took his crying about muh irish and muh poor working class! seriously.

>>2746463
He had a 10k strong army

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>>2746449
>1880

Nigga what?

>>2746463
He would have been taken seriously had he successfully destroyed the police train and massacred everyone on board. It's the point at which Australia could have turned out very differently, there was enough local popular support for Ned that they would have joined him in an uprising and probably founded a new state

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>>2746700

>Ned Kelly is successful is derailing the police train
>The government is unable to recover from this blow to it's manpower
>for the first time, the common people of Australia believe they have a chance at beating the government.
>Movement gains momentum
>The great Bushranger Rebellion breaks out
>British Empire panics, sends a fleet
>thousands die in the Battle of Canberra
>across the ocean, ships sail from San Fransisco, filled with American outlaws and agitators eager to join the fight
>after 3 years, the British admit defeat
>Ned Kelly proclaims glorious An-Cap paradise
>(recreational nuclear bombs)
>By 1975, Australia a a blasted hellscape
>One of the survivors is a former policeman, named Max....

>>2746449
Reminder that if Ned Kelly was in america he could've single-handedly toppled the entire police force because americans can aim for the legs.

Never understood why this man is a national hero

>>2748971
BECAUSE HE ETERNALLY BTFO'd THE POMMES FAGGOT

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>>2748971
>such is life
That and everybody likes the party tank

>>2748971
He isn't. We just think the metal suit was pretty cool

>>2748971
>Retarded potato nigger who shot cops for some reason
basically this >>2749799 its just a cool story thats about it

>>2747681
>thousands die in the Battle of Canberra

Canberra didn't exist until 1913 dummy American.

>>2746449
>Be Kelly
>Da sent to Oz for stealing a pig
>true to his Irish roots his da steals another pig
>perfidiousanglo.jpeg
>rouund up my mates and steak cows
>It's okay because they're Anglos capitalists
>bounty on head
>steal more cows
>kill policemen trying to bring you in
>It's okay because they're supporting the bourgeois monarchist regime

He was a terrorist LARPing as robin hood in a welding mask.

>>2748971
Australia doesn't have a Lincoln, or a Churchill, or a Mandela

But it does have a Kelly, and that's good enough for a nation of shitposting convicts