On October 13, 1999, Western Australian Democrat and erstwhile homosexual rights activist, Senator Brian Greig, gave the second reading speech on his Anti-Genocide Bill 1999. The bill seeks to amend the Genocide Convention Act 1949 by expanding the definition of genocide and by providing specific penalties for genocide offences.The 1949 Act operated solely to give parliamentary approval to the Federal Government to ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. …
