Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The whale meat scandal has exposed widespread theft of whale meat by the Japanese whaling crew this year in Japan. I wonder whether the Australian government has obtained advice on whether these revelations are a breach of Japan’s so-called research whaling program, which is allowable under International Whaling Commission rules, and has the Australian government pursued this matter with the IWC?