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| Subject: Awww, retarded OZschwitz anti-whaling group upset over broken election promise Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:06 pm | |
| Anti-whaling activists have slammed the federal government for breaking an election promise to send a ship to monitor Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt said on Sunday that an A319 aircraft staffed by Customs officials would be sent instead. Jeff Hansen
Unhappy: Sea Shepherd director Jeff Hansen says a plane is useless for monitoring whalers. Photo: Andrew Darby
Sea Shepherd Australian director Jeff Hansen, whose conservation society last week sent three vessels from Melbourne and Hobart to intercept the Japanese whaling fleet, said a plane was of no use. Advertisement
''It's a broken promise,'' Mr Hansen said. ''The promise was - to the whales and to the Australian public - to send a vessel. Sending a plane is really a waste of taxpayers' money.''
Speaking in Frankston, Victoria, on Sunday, Mr Hunt said the purpose of using a plane was threefold: to observe any whaling, to ensure there was ''a record and a chronicle'' of any conflict between whalers and conservationists and to show both sides that they were being observed by an independent party so ''they have to behave properly''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/antiwhaling-group-attacks-greg-hunt-over-breaking-election-promise-20131222-2zt4m.html#ixzz2oFfzWdQQ |
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