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  • Australian government tries to locate Japanese ship and detained men

    01/08/2012 5:11:27 PM PST · by Hunton Peck · 25 replies
    WAToday (Australia) ^ | January 9, 2012 - 7:28AM | Aleisha Orr
    The Australian government says it is its priority to make sure the three West Australian protesters who have spent more than 24 hours detained on a Japanese whaling security ship were being well cared for. The three West Australian men boarded the Shonan Maru No.2 in the early hours of Sunday morning off the coast of Bunbury in an attempt to force it to abandon its pursuit of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the government had been in touch with the Japanese government to find out exactly where the ship was in Australia's exclusive economic...