Shonan Maru No.2

Update - 9.15am Tuesday, January 10: It’s being reported the Australian Government will dispatch the Customs vessel Ocean Protector to collect the three activists, after Japanese authorities agreed to hand them back without charge.

Three men board a foreign ship in the dead of night, outside Australian waters, without permission. The crew of the target ship refuses their demands, and sets course for the ocean blue. And now it’s our Attorney-General’s job to fix it.

Simon Peterffy Geoffrey Tuxworth and Glen Pendlebury climbed on board a Japanese ship. Picture: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society / AFP

According to the A-G Nicola Roxon, all options are on the table at present, including sending a vessel out to meet the Shonan Maru No.2 and collect WA men Glen Pendlebury, Geoffrey Tuxworth and Simon Peterffy. She’s even been asked if the Navy should be mobilised.

This in spite of the bleeding obvious, that Roxon pointed out: “We do need to explain to the public that although we do not support Japanese whaling, if people take action outside our territorial waters, Australian laws will not automatically apply and that does restrict some of the options that the Government can take.”

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  • SP says:

    09:32pm | 12/01/12

    The general jist I’ve got from this thread is, both the whalers and activists have breached international treaty/law. To be fair they should both be charged. But since the whalers aren’t going to be prosecuted, I happen to think it’s fair that the activists are getting some protection. I also… Read more »

  • Andy of Sydney says:

    11:43am | 12/01/12

    Cate, if you think they did bad things to Aussies, you don’t want to know what they did to the Chinese. And yet, China is not launching nukes at Japan. Why is that, I wonder? The war was 70 years ago. Time to let go, love. Time to let go. Read more »

 

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