The Federal Opposition has called on the Rudd government to lift the "shroud of secrecy" and start answering questions about its troubled Japanese whaling-monitoring mission.
Opposition environment representative Greg Hunt today seized on revelations that Skytraders, the aviation company contracted by the government to run a promised surveillance plane, only sought safety approval to do so. The news has come after the government was embarrassed by revelations that the Oceanic Viking customs ship was this week still in port, despite a promise on December 19 that it would be out monitoring Japanese whalers within days. The government has refused to answer questions about the state of the surveillance mission, saying that they are "operational matters''. However, Mr. Hunt said it was time the government lift the "shroud of secrecy'' and give the Australian public an explanation.
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