Since migrating from the UK at the age of 14, Robert "Bertie" Kidd has called Australia home - even if he has spent large chunks of his adult life behind bars.
One of the country's oldest and most notorious criminals, Kidd, now 81, was outraged to discover Australia plans to deport him to Britain when his latest stretch - 11 years for a series of armed robberies and burglaries in Sydney - is up next month.
In a letter to the ABC, Kidd - who was 71 when jailed, and who led the so-called "great-grandfather gang" - vowed to fight the deportation order "boots and all". His daughter called the order "inhumane", saying the former 'Ten Pound Pom' had no one to support him in England, which he left in 1948.
Kidd's criminal career began in the late 1960s, when he was jailed for two years for forging A$10 notes. He became known for his safe cutting and blowing skills, was involved in horse doping and acted as a standover man.
His most infamous attempted crime was "the great plane robbery" of 1982, in which he smuggled himself into a wooden crate on an aircraft carrying A$1 million in notes from the Reserve Bank to regional banks.