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

I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

I thank the Senate. During question time in an answer to a question on whaling, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage alleged that I would call on the government to use the same tactics as Japan on Nauru. I have done nothing of the sort. What I did point out was that the minister had failed to get the Nauru vote against commercial whaling while at the same time Australia is pouring millions of dollars into establishing a refugee camp on Nauru. I advocated that the government instead assist Nauru to turn its vote away from commercial whaling towards the conservation of whales—a very good thing to do.