During the country's colonial period, Indigenous peoples in Australia were subjected to mass killings due to European interests. This account of genocide is clearly identifiable by the immense number of victims, but other cases of genocide occur under the public radar. According to the 1948 definition of genocide, which includes other elements besides mass murder, it is correct to support the idea that genocide against Aboriginal Australians continued into the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide established a concrete definition of what actually constitutes genocide. This fundamental aspect used to qualify genocide is the condition that an action is intended to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. The emphasis of the 1948 definition is that it specifies those qualifying actions. In addition to the more obvious method of physical killing, genocide can occur through other methods such as mental harm, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions conducive to the destruction of their way of life, proposing measures to prevent births, or the forced transfer of children from a group to another. another. These criteria substantiate the position that the modern treatment of Aboriginal Australians constitutes genocide. While the mass murders of the colonial period may have decreased or ceased, cultural genocide is a major proponent of the idea that genocide continued in Australia. While this act may not involve the physical killing of people, it involves measures taken to eliminate the culture that defines a people. In his article Australia: a continuing genocide? author Damien Short notes that this process of cultural genocide takes place in......middle of paper......diverse world.Works Cited• Noyce, Phillip, Christine Olsen, John Winter, Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Gulpilil, Ningali Lawford, Myarn Lawford, Deborah Mailman, Jason Clarke, Kenneth Branagh, Christopher Doyle, John Scott, Veronika Jenet, Peter Gabriel, Roger Ford and Doris Pilkington. Rabbit proof fence. United States: Miramax Home Entertainment, 2003.• Short, Damien. “Australia: a continuing genocide?” Journal of Genocide Research 12.1-2 (2010): 45-68. Print.• “Intervention is killing our people.” Web log posts. Cancel the action. 13 September 2011. Web. 5 October 2011. .• "The legal definition of genocide". Preventing international genocide. Np, nd Web. 5 October 2011. .