Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Minister for Transport and Regional Services) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I am responding to the element of the question that asked about alternative policies. I was referring to the fact that not all members of the Labor parties around the world follow the views of the opposition in relation to the value of legal action to endeavour to prevent the exploitation of whales. Indeed, New Zealand’s delegate to the International Whaling Commission is a former New Zealand Labour Prime Minister, Sir Geoffrey Palmer. He also spent some time on the International Court of Justice. He was quoted recently as saying:

We’ve been looking at the legal theories that are available against the Japanese for some months. There is no legal theory that is available that can prevent, in our view, the Japanese from doing what—  

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