Not entirely correct. Australia ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is part of the United Nations.<p>From Wikipedia: "While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. For this reason, the Universal Declaration is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations."<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...</a>