澳大利亚的刑事陪审制度正式确立于殖民地时期的新南威尔士,1900年的联邦宪法规定了陪审制度,但陪审法仍然属于各州或地区的立法权范围。

• The jury system was first introduced in the first-established colony, New South Wales of Australia, and it possesses Anglo-American common law tradition.