The International Criminal Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002 finally made genocide a crime in Australia, more than fifty years after the country ratified the UN Convention on Genocide. However, legal scholar Shirley Scott argues it was created in a way that avoided ‘providing a basis for litigation on behalf of the ‘stolen generations’’, in the wake of the 1997 Bringing Them Home Report.
Read Professor Scott’s article here:
http://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/AJHR/2004/22.html