I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes the Japanese Government's announcement that it plans to resume hunting whales in the Southern Ocean in 2015; and

(b) calls on:

(i) the Prime Minister (Mr Abbott) to directly raise with the Japanese Prime Minister (Mr Shinzō Abe) Australia's objection to Japan's plan to resume hunting in the Southern Ocean, and

(ii) the Australian Government to utilise international fora to stop the Japanese resuming hunting in the Southern Ocean.

I seek leave to make a short statement.