Australia has a spotty history with the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the convention, or UNGC). Despite Australia being the second signatory to the 1948 convention, laws punishing genocide were only implemented into domestic statute books by the International Criminal Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002 (Cth).
Given a specific intent to destroy a group on the basis of its national, ethnical, racial or religious makeup is central to the offence, Australian lawmakers and decision-makers were potentially vulnerable to the blighted matter of Indigenous policy.
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