stands for the Rule of Law to be respected in Australia
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly; Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~ Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, 1849