Senator SIEWERT (4:04 PM) —I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 292 standing in my name for today, relating to Japanese whaling.

Leave granted.

Senator SIEWERT —I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)   notes that:

(i)   in January 2008, the Humane Society International secured:

(a)   a ruling from the Australian Federal Court that Japanese whaling in Australia’s Whale Sanctuary in Antarctica is illegal, and

(b)   an order that it be stopped, and

(ii)   the Australian Government has taken no action to enforce this ruling; and

(b)   urges the Australian Government to:

(i)   set a timeline for legal proceedings in an international court to stop illegal Japanese whaling if Japan does not commit to stop whaling by 8 December 2008, and

(ii)   send a vessel into the Southern Ocean to monitor Japanese whaling operations for the 2008-09 whaling season.

Question agreed to.