Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:19 AEST Court finds genocide not a crime The Full Bench of the Federal Court in Sydney has found that genocide is not a crime under Australian common law. The Court was delivering its judgement on two appeals by a number of Aboriginal plaintiffs who were seeking a declaration that genocide is a crime under Australian law. However the Federal Court has found that Australia would need to enact enabling legislation to implement an international convention on genocide for the crime to be recognised. © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
