Ned Kelly is probably best known as the Australian bushwacker, or bandit, who made inch thick armour out of farm implements. He was hanged in the 1880's for the murder of three policemen, not long after the rest of his gang was killed in a shootout with police. Yet despite this a criminal life and his sticky end, Kelly is a national hero in Australia When Booker Prize winning author Peter Carey began considering a book on Kelly he says he was more interested in what this said about Australians. In his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" he tells the story from Ned Kelly's point of view, as the son of pennyless immigrants living under a corrupt colonial system. Carey told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr some Americans equate the story to a western, but he sees it as much more than that....