Dick Yardley wrote “Australian Political & Religious Leaders Treason, Treachery and Sabotage“ (updated 2017), which is a collection of many of the Australian domestic pseudolaw arguments, some which originated with the Institute of Taxation Research through a publication by the Institution for Constitutional Education and Research called “Australia: the concealed colony!” but also contains more recent evolutions such as the “Queen of Australia” pseudolaw motif, and associated contentions related to Queensland.
Dick Yardley spoke at a MyPlace meeting at Gympie in July 2023. Part 1:
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I cannot locate any examples where Dick Yardley has attempted these concepts before the courts himself, but he still actively encourages others to do so, at their own detriment.
The only case law involving Dick Yardley was regarding an orchard the couple owned where they grew lychees and other fruit and had constructed electric grids above the trees to protect their fruit from flying-foxes, which became the subject of litigation. (See Booth v. Yardley [2006] QPEC 116; Booth v Yardley [2006] QPEC 119; Booth v. Yardley & Anor [2008] QPEC 5; and Booth v Yardley [2008] QPEC 100) Dr Booth was active as an advocate for the conservation of flying-foxes since 1999, and complained that the Yardley’s injured and killed some of those creatures. This, Dr Booth asserted, was illegal and the Yardleys should be restrained from using the grids and compelled to dismantle them. The originating application was dismissed in Booth v Frippery Pty Ltd [2005] QPEC 95. In the subsequent appeal in Booth v Frippery P/L [2006] QCA 74 the Court of Appeal took a different view from the Planning & Environment Court judge of the proper interpretation of the defence provision in s 88(3). In a judgment concurred in by the other members of the court, McMurdo J explained why the holding at first instance “that the use of the grids was objectively directed to protecting the lychee crop” and that “the effect on some flying foxes was incidental to that purpose” was not supported.