Garrett ‘whale of a flop’ at IRC meeting
28/6/08
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has come under fire from the opposition and Greenpeace for failing to make a dent in Japan’s scientific whaling program at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual conference. He was “a whale of a flop” at the meeting, in Santiago, Chile, which ended on Friday, says Opposition Environment spokesman Greg Hunt. Anti-whale hunting nations spearheaded by Australia expressed deep concern at Japan’s skirting of a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling by hunting hundreds of whales each year in the name of scientific research.
See: http://news.theage.com.au/national/garrett-whale-of-a-flop-at-irc-meeting-20080628-2yes.html
Tags: Australia, Environment, Japan, Pacific