Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. I ask, in relation to the lost vote on commercial whaling at the International Whaling Commission, how on earth could the minister for the environment, Senator Ian Campbell, have failed to get the support of Nauru and the Solomon Islands on this matter? How on earth, when the government is negotiating to send West Papuans to Nauru, could this minister fail to get Nauru to prevent whales being sent to Japan?