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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) the recent International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting passed a resolution instructing members to have their future scientific whaling programs assessed by the Commission, and

(ii) the Japanese Government has indicated it will ignore this resolution and recommence a lethal 'scientific' whaling program in the Southern Ocean in 2015; and

(b) calls on the Japanese Government to:

(i) respect the IWC motion and not to recommence a lethal 'scientific' whaling program in the Southern Ocean in 2015, and

(ii) join the Southern Ocean Research Partnership, a ten nation Southern Ocean non-lethal whale research program.

Question agreed to.