Sea Shepherd helicopter pilot, Chris Aultman, has been granted a visa to enter Australia, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

"I thank Immigration Minister Chris Bowen for his swift response to my request as to why two Sea Shepherd crew members were denied visas to enter Australia. Sea Shepherd's Chris Aultman and Tim Pierce, helicopter pilot and mechanic respectively, had both successfully applied before for visas to Australia. Mr Pierce is expected to be able to also join his colleague in Australia," Senator Brown said.

Environment Minister Tony Burke will share the Gillard government's responsibility if the Japanese whaling fleet's invasion of the Antarctic whale sanctuary ends in violence, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

"It's fatuous that a minister could talk about the Australian government's determination to leave Japan in control of our Antarctic waters as a manoeuvre dedicated to preventing ‘escalation'," Senator Brown said in Toowoomba.

Bob Brown and Captain Paul Watson discuss Divine Wind, the latest Sea Shepherd mission to protect whales from Japanese whalers in Australia's territorial waters.

The Australian Government must have a plan in place to ensure the safety of all ships in our waters as the Sea Shepherd fleet prepares to leave Australian ports to defend hundreds of whales from Japanese whaling ships, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today, alongside Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson.

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown today expressed his disappointment that the Gillard Government has no plans to send a monitoring vessel to the Southern Ocean.

"Minister Burke might as well direct his call for calm to the whales, for all the good that will come of it," Senator Brown said in Launceston.

The Gillard government should be sending a naval presence into the Antarctic whale sanctuary this summer and seeking an injunction against Japan's slaughter of whales, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

"It's illegal to kill whales in the whale sanctuary. It is that simple," Senator Brown said in Canberra.

"Pictures of this bloody slaughter by Japanese whalers, capturing images of their grenade-tipped harpoons turning the Antarctic seas red, should be sent around the world."

The reported decision of Japan to spend $27 million of public money on killing whales in Antarctica this summer must rate as one of the most stupid PR decisions of any equivalent nation in recent times, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

“It is $27 million wasted on defending the indefensible,” Senator Brown said today.

“The question the world will ask is why not put this money into cleaning up the other great environmental disaster, the Fukushima nuclear complex.

The ALP and Coalition have combined to block an Australian Greens motion condemning the slaughter of dolphins and porpoises by Japan.

Senator Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens marine spokesperson said the annual Japanese dolphin and porpoise hunt is a deliberate attempt to overcome bans on the commercial killing of whales.

“This yearly kill is a disturbing display of regulated coastal whaling,” Senator Siewert said today.

An official complaint should be sent to Japan over its misuse ofAustralian police resources following another raid on the Sea Shepherdships in Hobart today, Greens Leader Bob Brown said.

"This morning in Hobart we've seen the third consecutive AustralianFederal Police raid on Sea Shepherd vessels following Sea Shepherd'ssuccessful campaign against illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean.