Resources #Magna Carta

If we know that the Trial by Jury is the bulwark, the cornerstone, the foundation of our criminal justice system, a 'little parliament', 'the lamp which shows that freedom lives', a protection against unjust legislation — how can it be lawful for the state to legislate to remove or restrict it?

A Poem

‘And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate…’ all sounds very laudable but why did it install the Dutch foreign prince then?

Across the Darling Downs it went, across the Liverpool Plains, It swallowed up the open runs, it swallowed up the rains. It thickened into walls of green that no man’s horse could breach, It took the land the selectors held and all beyond their reach.