Bill
Defence Trade Controls Amendment (Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Lidia Thorpe
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-11-28
- second reading — 2024-11-28
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-11-28.
This bill would stop Australian-made defence goods, technologies and services from being exported if they could be used in genocide or similar serious international crimes.
It would ban exports to a foreign country when the International Court of Justice has ruled that country poses a real and imminent risk of harming a people's right to be protected from genocide.
The bill would also apply when Australia knows or should know of a serious risk of genocide, including after a provisional measures order from the International Court of Justice.
- Prohibits exporting Australian defence goods, technologies or services that risk being used in genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.
- Bans exports to a foreign country that the International Court of Justice has found poses a real and imminent threat of irreparable harm to a people's right to be protected from genocide.
- Requires Australia to act with due diligence to ensure its defence exports do not contribute to genocide after they leave the country.
Exporters of Australian-made defence goods, technologies and services.
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