The High Court of Australia held that treaties and conventions ratified by Australia effected legitimate expectations that the executive would have to consider them when reaching their decisions. If the decision maker disregards a treaty or convention, the person being affected must then be given an opportunity to argue against the decision. However, the provisions of the treaty or convention do not become part of Australian law. 

(found in Toward Implementing Universal Human Rights: Festschrift for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Human Rights Committee, ed. Nisuke Ando, p 258)