Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is on his way to Japan. Will Kevin Rudd convince the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to stop whaling and save the relationship with Australia? Kevin Rudd in the run up to the last election promised to take Japan to international courts to stop the whaling but has already done a back-flip to reverse his position.

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New Zealand has ended the course case brought against Japanese whaling in the southern ocean. Austrlia does back flip and shelves pledge to go to International courts to stop Japanese whaling in the southern ocean.

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The Australian Federal Court has ordered the Japanese company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha to immediately stop whaling in the Australian Whale Sanctuary.

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The Australian Federal Court will rule today on an injunction to prevent Japan from whaling in the Australian Whale Sanctuary.

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The Age 29 Dec 07 Japan has used the threat to hunt humpback whales to gain US support to force the International Whaling Commission to accept a return to commercial whaling.

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ABC News 20 Dec. 2007 Japan denies US agreement stopping humpback whale kill

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ABC News 14 December 2007. Federal Opposition Leader Dr Brendan Nelson bows to Japanese pressure and argues against the use of Australian Navy assets to monitor the Japanese whaling fleet operating inside Australian Antarctic Territory waters.

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theage.com.au 13 December 2007. Australian navy vessels may be sent to the Australian Antarctic waters to track and monitor Japanese whalers.

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The Times, 3 August 2007. Russia sends two submersibles to plant rust-proof titanium flags on seabed two and a half miles beneath sea level at the North Pole.

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TheAge.com.au 13 July 2006. Against the advice of scientists, Russia is proceeding with drilling in Antarctica.

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