Senate debates

Monday, 10 September 2018

Questions without Notice

Whaling

2:50 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

on an environmental issue that even One Nation purports to care about. Right now, in Brazil, the International Whaling Commission is meeting. This is a critical meeting because Japan has gone beyond its lies that its whaling in the Southern Ocean has been for scientific purposes—fake scientific purposes—to putting forward a motion for the resumption of full commercial whaling. You have sent Senator Anne Ruston, the Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific, to represent Australia at this meeting. She is a designated parliamentary secretary and a junior minister. Given this is the biggest development in nearly 30 years of leadership by Australia, why are you sending a junior minister, and what signal does this send Japan about Australia's conviction on this issue?

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