Sionara sci-whaling

The Australian Government has just announced it will initiate legal action to end Japan’s ‘scientific whaling’ activities in the Southern Ocean.

This announcement can only be:

• an attempt to distract your attention from pink batts, the ETS, the resource tax, and what have you;
• an attempt to buy the votes of Muslim, African and non-whaling nations in Rudd’s quixotic bid to win a UNSC seat; and
• an attempt to gratify Rudd’s manic vanity.

It goes without saying that this announcement has nothing whatever to do with long-standing, avowed Government policy on Japan’s ‘scientific whaling’ activities in the Southern Ocean.