Japan's war on whales isn't over – the Australian government must keep fighting | Darren Kindleysides

Australia's global leadership on whale conservation will be tested as Japanese hunters move to a different hemisphere

Japan's whaling fleet arrived back at the port of Shimonoseki on the weekend with a barbaric tally of 333 dead whales that are no longer swimming freely in the Southern Ocean.

If the work of the Japanese whalers is anything like last year, more than 100 pregnant females and 50 or so juveniles will have been killed. But from now on, things are different.