Aust expects Japan to accept ICJ rule

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has been presenting Australia's case against Japan's whaling program. Source: AAP

AUSTRALIA expects Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean if the International Court of Justice (ICJ) finds against it, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says.

Should the court rule for Japan, Australia would accept the decision but continue to work for an end to whaling through the International Whaling Commission, he says.

Mr Dreyfus, an experienced Queen's Counsel, has been presenting Australia's case against Japan's whaling program before the ICJ in The Hague, arguing that it is commercial whaling dressed up as science.

He says Japan is a good international citizen and will accept the final ICJ ruling.

"We expect that Japan will comply with any ruling of the ICJ just as Australia would comply with any ruling of the ICJ," he told ABC television's 7.30 Report on Wednesday.

"There are enforcement arrangements. I don't think it would come to that."

Mr Dreyfus said Australia would accept a decision for Japan.

"If the ICJ rules against us, that the whaling convention does permit Japan to do what it has been doing for many years, we will keep arguing in the whaling commission with other nations," he said.

"More than 30 other nations directly support the point we are making here in the ICJ."

Mr Dreyfus said Japan's whaling program in the Southern Ocean had killed more than 10,000 whales since the 1988 moratorium.

He said Japan simply continued whaling following the moratorium, using the same whaling company and doing pretty much as they had before.

"They were doing commercial whaling up to the introduction of the moratorium in the Southern Ocean. After the moratorium, they simply re-badged it as a scientific program," he said.

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