Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note that Senator Ian Campbell has taken claim for four votes. He has to take responsibility for the fifth. I ask again, because the minister ducked this in his answer: how come the Minister for the Environment and Heritage failed to influence Nauru to stop the vital vote for commercial whaling, which is now going to set the pattern for future whaling conferences, when so much effort has been put in by this government to taking West Papuans, and how come Senator Campbell flopped in getting the Solomon Islands onside for this crucial vote on whaling? What is it that led to this failure of diplomacy by the minister in both cases?