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Senate Inquiry reports that warming oceans are putting the Australian way of life at risk

Peter Whish-Wilson 6 Dec 2017
Healthy Oceans

Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the release of the Senate inquiry report (link here) into the “Current and future impacts of climate change on marine fisheries and biodiversity.” Senator Whish-Wilson instigated the Inquiry after a recent marine heatwave devastated fisheries and biodiversity off the coast of Tasmania.

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Sea Shepherd doing the government's job in the Southern Ocean

Peter Whish-Wilson 23 Dec 2016
Animal Welfare
Healthy Oceans

Greens spokesperson for Whaling, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson says that the Australian Government's failure to keep their promise to monitor Japanese whaling activity in the Southern Ocean means a slaughter in the Southern Ocean is immenent this Christmas.

Senator Whish-Wilson said, “The Liberal Government is showing a perverse lack of will in failing to send a patrol boat and protect Australian waters from whaling.

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