most people will feel disturbed. Drunk Guy says: 07:35am | 01/02/10 Lisa, I'm sorry, but Whaling is a cultural activity for Australians as well, but do we continue it now (even though we stopped in @ the late 60:s ) because generations of families went out to Stradbroke Island Whaling Station, now a resort, to hunt passing whales and feel the same way as the japanese? Hell fire they might even be able to make a buck out of this cultural activity by sending it to Japan to help with the research. I'm not against the consumption of Whale meat or the use of Blubber for medical or beauty products, however the perpetuation of the story that it is either an event of cultural significance or for scientific research has to stop. The world has to make a decision on conservation, and we either call an area a marine santuary or we just allow a free for all until we have nothing left to protect, after all I'm sure that if the Australian Government assembled a fleet of fishong ships capable of catching and processing months and months worth of catches at a time and sent them north to the international waters just off Japan and harvested that area, there'd be international repercussions that would be led by the Japanese. Drunk Guy says: 07:36am | 08/01/10 The reason for the absurd arguement that the Antartic waters are not our jurisdiction is simply that some northern hemisphers countries who have an