Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister Hunt, also quoted:

The Government should stop turning a blind eye to whaling in our waters and should have a Customs vessel in the Southern Ocean … It’s time finally for the Government to be focusing on protecting our waters rather than protecting their own back.

The coalition government did go into the last election with a promise to send a Customs patrol vessel. Will you send it this summer to monitor the Japanese fleet as they head south to slaughter our whales?