The activity or practice of being a bushranger; banditry or robbery carried out by people hiding in the bush.
From 'bushranger' plus the gerund suffix '-ing.' Specific to Australian colonial period vocabulary.
Bushranging was so common in 1800s Australia that it shaped colonial laws and created folk legends—the government eventually had to offer large rewards and deploy special police just to stop the outlaws.
Associated with masculine frontier heroics in colonial narratives; women's participation in bush resistance and outlawry was systematically underdocumented.
Use term neutrally for any frontier outlaw activity. Acknowledge women's participation when discussing historical cases.
["frontier outlawry","bush-based resistance","outlaw activity"]
Women engaged in bushranging for survival, resistance to colonization, and autonomy, but colonial records prioritized male accounts.
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