Most Australians want customs ship to monitor Japanese whaling, poll finds

Roy Morgan poll finds 76.9% of 1,002 people - including Coalition voters - want the federal government to 'send a ship to oppose the whaling'

Australians overwhelmingly support calls for the federal government to send a customs ship to monitor Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean, a poll commissioned by the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd indicates.

The Coalition has previously been accused of backing away from a pre-election commitment to tackle whaling in the Southern Ocean, after refusing to send a specialist customs patrol vessel and instead sending aircraft to monitor the whaling, which Japan claims is for scientific purposes.