Krauatungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe lodged a
private criminal prosecution with the Magistrates'
Court of Victoria against attorney general Mark Dreyfus, with the
charge sheet outlining that over the chief lawmaker's time in
parliament, he's failed to "stop and prevent the ongoing
Aboriginal genocide".
If the Magistrate's Court accepts the charge sheet, Dreyfus
will stand charged with
genocide by inflicting destructive life conditions, contrary to
section 268.5 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), which is an
offence that carries life imprisonment.
The difficulty with this case making it to the Victorian Supreme
Court is that to prosecute any of the five types of genocide
offences that appear in Australian domestic law, the attorney
general's written consent for such proceedings to commence is
required, under
section 268.121 of the Criminal Code.
