The Wire

Environment Minister Ian Campbell has been triumphant following a vote against the resumption of commercial whaling at the Commission in Korea yesterday. But today’s voting will consider the question of scientific whaling by Japan – and the outcome is by no means a foregone conclusion. Greens Senator Bob Brown says he believes the Japanese will carry out their threat to proceed with whaling anyway – and he wants the Coalition to get behind a senate push closing ports to Japanese ships. Greenpeace Campaign Manager Danny Kennedy says the government is trying to take the credit after decades of compaigning by Greenpeace – and they could be applying more pressure to stop Japanese whaling in southern waters.

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