NED KELLY NOW A TREE HUGGER !

The famous bushranger - Ned Kelly- has been sighted in North Queensland , where it seems he has turned into a Greenie. His latest armour (above ) is organic -wood- and traps trying to lay hands on him will get splinters under their fingernails. It is understood that Ned  fled Victoria because of the lousy weather . Clanking about in metal armour in North Queensland gave him prickly heat, so he whittled a new outfit from rainforest hardwood. Our cameraman got a fleeting  photo of Ned  in Townsville’s Anderson Botanical Gardens , Mundingburra, before he galloped off to hide in the vast caves in Flinder’s Street East where , like Robin Hood, he will make plans to fight the cruel rule of the slash and burn Newman Government. Ned is often seen in the nearby Cowboys Leagues  Club sharing a  steak  sandwich  with  Ambrose , the naked conch shell player, and arm wrestling  with  Protestant   patrons . In a lengthy registered letter he sent to Little Darwin, Ned says he is alarmed by plans to ease broad scale land clearing regulations in Queensland, which would make it difficult for him to escape into the bush when being chased by troopers.