FED:Greens slam Japan's whaling expansion

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2010
FED:Greens slam Japan's whaling expansion

Greens leader BOB BROWN says he's met with Japan's ambassador and told him that whaling
is doing his country "great damage".

He says he told SHIGEKAZU SATO that whatever victory Japan thinks it has in killing
whales is a pyrrhic victory.

Senator BROWN's also called on the federal government to release the most recent whaling
photographs .. which he says are being kept hidden in the minister for the environment's
drawer.

He says it's a cowardly approach to Tokyo which is not representing what the Australian
people think about the cowardly business of whaling.

Senator BROWN says if the Japanese want to slaughter whales in our oceans .. the rest
of the world should be able to see what they're doing.

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KEYWORD: WHALING GREENS (CANBERRA)

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