"While Australia's Prime Minister visits Japan, their whaling fleet is slaughtering whales illegally in the Southern Ocean," Sea Shepherd spokesperson, Adam Burling, said.

"The Japanese whalers’ explosive, grenade tipped harpoons are currently being fired into these magnificent and peaceful creatures," he continued.

"The whales are killed in our waters, the Australian Whale Sanctuary. Prime Minister Turnbull must demand an end to whaling, anything less than would be aiding and abetting in this crime against the whales," Mr Burling concluded.

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