AR-News: (Uruguay) Armed Australian patrolling in Southern Ocean

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Australia will boost the protection of its sovereign interests with full-time 
armed patrols of the remote and ecologically sensitive Southern Ocean, the 
Australian Government announced this week. 

Senator I. Macdonald
The Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Ian Macdonald, 
and the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Chris Ellison, said the 
Australian Customs Service will lease an ice-strengthened ship on an ongoing, 
full-time basis for surveillance and enforcement patrols – primarily in the 
Southern Ocean.







"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein
My choice for fashion is compassion ... They need it more than we do."
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