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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) the Japanese Government annually issues permits for the capture and killing of more than 20 000 dolphins and porpoises, and

(ii) the hunting of smaller cetaceans is a deliberate circumvention of any bans on the commercial killing of whales; and

(b) urges the Australian Government to:

(i) condemn the slaughter of dolphins and porpoises by Japan, and

(ii) recognise that the killing of dolphins and porpoises is coastal whaling.

Question put.

The Senate divided. [12:03]

(The President—The Hon. JJ Hogg)

Question negatived.