If Japanese whaling was restricted to Japanese territorial waters, they would have an economic incentive to look after their own whales and manage their own marine environment, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
Japanese whalers
Turmoil on the high seas: how Australia can stop Japan
Australia still has several diplomatic and legal options it can take to try and halt Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, and there’s historical evidence that it wouldn’t destroy our relationship with Japan, argues Donald Rothwell.
Captain’s blog: Attacked from all sides by Japanese whaling fleet
On 9 January the Steve Irwin, was aggressively attacked by the entire Japanese whaling fleet in one of the most intense confrontations that I have ever experienced, writes Paul Watson
ALP whaling stance sold for free trade
With no transparency, no recognition of the public interest and total silence from IWC member nations, the fate of the world’s whales is being decided behind closed doors, writes Sue Arnold.
Sledging Greenpeace: It ain’t about the whales
Steve Shallhorn, my former boss at Greenpeace Australia Pacific and a man whom I admire, has, I fear, looked straight through a forest to focus on one particular tree, writes Tim Hollo.
Mungo: This is the week where it all starts happening
And this, as they say, is where the story really starts. The government is officially back to work preparing to launch itself across the uncharted seas of its election promises, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Memo Qantas: safety and spin aren’t the same thing
Let’s challenge the Qantas spin about how safety conscious the airline is in the aftermath of QF2’s power failure on approach to Bangkok a week ago.
RAAF could be the key to monitoring whalers
The promise to add the Antarctic Division jet to surveillance by the chartered P&O polar cruiser the Oceanic Viking to dog the whalers was made on December 19. But since then nobody in government is saying anything coherent about the audacious plan, writes Ben Sandilands.
Perhaps someone does read Greg Sheridan
In this morning’s Australian the man modestly billed as “the most influential foreign affairs commentator in Australia” turned his attention to Australia’s gun boat diplomacy over Japanese whaling, writes Richard Farmer.
State of the planet
Rich urged to bear climate change costs … Biological mechanism for enhanced carbon consumption in the ocean discovered … Japanese whalers won’t say if they’ll spare Migaloo … Ditching bicycles was a bad idea … Climate change to threaten a third of wildlife
