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Australia disappointed by Japan's continued whale hunt in Southern Ocean

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“It is not necessary to kill whales in order to study them,” Frydenberg added

That's a completely unscientific statement.

Japan’s whaling in the Southern Ocean should stop, the International Court of Justice ruled in 2014

This is fake news! The ICJ ruling applied to the old research program, but the ICJ only said that Japan should take the ruling into consideration when formulation new programs, which Japan has done. I took a look at the new project plan and it looks fair dinkum to me. I wonder if our Australian friends have read it?

At the end of the day Australians don't need to think of whales as a resource like fish, but they shouldn't get on a high horse and tell people of other cultures how to behave. Colonialism is over, we're adults now.

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Fortunately everyone has an opinion and the right to voice it. Personally I feel whaling and dolphin killing is a cruel and barbaric practice and should be stopped... but that is my opinion :-)

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At the end of the day Australians don't need to think of whales as a resource like fish, but they shouldn't get on a high horse and tell people of other cultures how to behave.

Australia's not telling others how to behave, rather they are trying to protect a reserve where about 80% of the world's whales feed. This protection will increase whale populations world wide.

So it's a win for Japan if they want to continue whaling because their quotas would increase as whales numbers grow.

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So it's a win for Japan if they want to continue whaling because their quotas would increase as whales numbers grow.

But there are no quotas, so how could they increase?

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