And now Ian Campbell is my friend
To my amazement I am finding a strand lack of nausea for another Liberal Party Minister.
This time its Ian Campbell, Minster for the Environment - and his youthful ward Greg Hunt, and the topic is Japanese Scientific Whaling.
I can't for a second see the annual Japanese Cetacean slaughter as anything other than commercial whaling wrapped up in scientific lambskin. I mean seriously, if you are interested in researching a species, the last thing you need to be doing is killing them. How does cutting them up provide anything substantive to the store of human understanding?
And it would seem that Mr Campbell (and his youthful ward) are coming around to the same way of thinking. At long last, the government is banning Japanese Whalers from entering Australian ports. The relevant (and heart warmin) quote is "They are banned from Australian ports as long as I'm the Minister." Heres hoping a/ he sticks to it and b/ the Japanse get the message.
The former is possible while the later is far less likely.
Meanwhile I want to yet again call to attention the somewhat paternal appearing relationship between the Minister and his Parliamentary Secretary. It's all very Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson to my eyes. If that was Bob Brown in the portfolio, lord knows there would be much tittering behind hands.
