Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I am disappointed that the Senate did not support this motion because, as we speak, the clashes are still occurring in the Southern Ocean. The Sea Shepherd has been sandwiched between Japanese vessels and flash bombs have been let off by the Japanese, exploding over the Sun Laurel, the Korean flagged vessel which the Japanese have in the Southern Ocean in Australia's Antarctic territorial waters trying to refuel the whaling fleet. Also there is another vessel, the Japanese maritime self-defence vessel, operating in those waters—last known port Fremantle. We believe that ship has been using an Australian port before going out to sea for quite some time, deliberately out there so it could set sail to the Southern Ocean. It is quite clear that the Japanese have— (Time expired)