Dead Body Discovered Father n Son Fugitive Arrested

The state's Acting Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Pheeney says it was a tip-off from the public about the missing man that helped find the fugitives.

"In fact, what it did is it put the final pieces of the jigsaw together in terms of this property," he told reporters.

Police in Australia have discovered a dead body following the arrest of father and son fugitives in a remote part of New South Wales.

The hunt for Gino Stocco, 58, and his son Mark, 35, spanned three states, and allegedly involved a shoot-out with police and a high-speed car chase.

The pair has been described by police as "modern day bushrangers" - a term which originally referred to escaped convicts in the early years of British settlement who used survival skills to hide from the authorities.

Police have previously said they wanted to charge the pair with 13 offences each, including attempted murder after they allegedly fired on two police vehicles earlier this month.

Heavily armed police swooped on a property near the central-west New South Wales town of Dunedoo on Wednesday.

The pair struggled as they were arrested, but police say no shots were fired.

Police are yet to formally identify the dead body, but it is believed to be that of a 68-year-old man who has been missing since earlier this month.