Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (15:57): I move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the recent International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting passed a resolution instructing members to have their future scientific whaling programs assessed by the Commission, and (ii) the Japanese Government has indicated it will ignore this resolution and recommence a lethal 'scientific' whaling program in the Southern Ocean in 2015; and (b) calls on the Japanese Government to: (i) respect the IWC motion and not to recommence a lethal 'scientific' whaling program in the Southern Ocean in 2015, and (ii) join the Southern Ocean Research Partnership, a ten nation Southern Ocean non-lethal whale research program. Question agreed to.