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At the moment, we’re all spending a lot of time debating gay marriage and climate change. Meanwhile, other issues aren’t being debated as vigorously as they might be.
Today The Punch team has each selected two issues which get us hot under the collar, and which we feel deserve more airplay.
What are your thoughts on the issues we’ve chosen? And what other issues do you think we should all be talking about?
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How much do we really care about whales? How much are the Australian people and its Government really willing to put on the line in our relationship with Japan to stop the killing of our sonar speaking cousins?
Tony Abbott has gone some way to answering this question by saying he doesn’t think it’s worth taking Japan to the International Court of Justice or International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In Abbott’s summation it’s just not worth pissing off the Japanese and risking a legal fall-out with our number one trade partner.
“We don’t like whaling. We would like the Japanese to stop,” he told Macquarie Radio yesterday. “On the other hand, we don’t want to needlessly antagonise our most important trading partner, a fellow democracy, an ally.”
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James says:
The real issue is that the Japanese are defying the IWC with bollocks about whaling for scientific reasons (in a whale sanctuary), I really don’t care whether they say it won’t lead to the extinction of the Minke whale, they shouldn’t be there in the first place. It is now… Read more »
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B S Goh says:
Thanks James. As I have said we ALL in fact share the common objective to SAVE each and everyone of the whale species. We differ on to achieve this common objective. The bigger and more important issue for us as a Nation from this whaling controversy is how the Government… Read more »
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