Is Kevin Rudd the Neville Chamberlain of Conservation?
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson on board the Steve Irwin in the Southern Ocean We have laws that are not being enforced. We have promises that are not being kept. We have tax-payer funded documentation of atrocities against the whales in an established whale sanctuary that the Australian tax-payers are not allowed to see for fear that it will embarrass Japan. The West Australian newspaper applied under the Freedom of Information request for the video and photographic documentation taken by the Australian Customs vessel Oceanic Viking last year. The images were taken as evidence to be used in an international court case against Japan to challenge their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. The government appears to have abandoned plans to take Japan to court and the images are not to be released because the documentation “could reasonably be expected to cause damage to international relations.” With that government statement, Kevin Rudd has become the Neville Chamberlain of conser
