Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

If I can make it clear again, as I have previously to the senator, these issues are regularly discussed between Australia and Japan. Australia is well aware, as I said in my previous remarks, of our strong opposition to commercial whaling, to so-called scientific whaling as well as to their latest proposals to recommence commercial whaling through changed voting regimes or the establishment of catch limits for commercial whaling. They are part of our engagements with Japan—