Australia’s long history of ‘sovereign citizens’ can be traced to outback WA
- Written by Keiran Hardy, Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
Leonard Casley, often referred to as Prince Leonard.Olivier CHOUCHANA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesOutback Western Australia, some time in the 1970s. Picture a huge farm about 500 kilometres north of Perth, with a seemingly endless dirt road to get there.
It’s about as middle-of-nowhere as you can get.
Leonard Casley is a wheat farmer and the...
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