Tsar of all the oceans? Pull the other one, Bazza!

There's nothing the average Aussie hates more than a blow hard.
So former federal politician, and Hawke Government environment minister for around three years until 1987, Barry Cohen must have taken leave of his senses to call himself tsar of all the oceans when recalling those years.
The current Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garret must have also entered lala land to have appointed Bazza to the ersatz Pew Whaling Commission (when did the Pew Institute's barely concealed lobbying on behalf of whaling interests suddenly morph into a commission to rival the International Whaling Commission?)
The International Whaling Commission was formed under a United Nations convention and Australia became a member long before Bazza's time in the political limelight.
So I'm at a loss to see how much he would have personally mattered in putting the international commercial whaling moratorium in place when it was formally adopted in 1982; but he was still around when that bl**dy loophole was allowed to develop into commercial whaling by stealth and he sounds just the sort of bloke we don't need now.
And the result of the recent 3-day lovefest bears out the Rudd Government's folly, because Japan has outmaneuvered the anti-whaling nations and p#ss poor reps like Cohen who helped create the problem of 'scientific' whaling in the first place.