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A birthday worth celebrating

Thanks to the Magna Carta, we avoided the dismal fate of becoming another Argentina

13 June 2015

9:00 AM

13 June 2015

9:00 AM

On 15 June the world celebrates the 800th anniversary of an event which, as Daniel Hannan rightly says, is one of ‘planetary significance’: the adoption of the Magna Carta. Today, few Australian students, even in our law schools, would be able to explain how crucial this is to modern Australia.

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