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AUSTRALIA: Activists Split Over Policy on Japanese Whaling

By Stephen de Tarczynski

MELBOURNE, Dec 26 (IPS) - As Australia continues to call on Japan to abandon its whaling program, leading environmental groups are divided in their response to the government’s plan to stop Japanese whaling.

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