It happened much faster than expected. Under the tutelage of Australia’s new loosely-riveted Labour Government, a bunch of dopes moved to prosecute Japan for whaling in Australia’s “protected” Southern ocean.

The claim was that Japan is illegally harvesting whales from an area protected by Australia.

Tell that to the whales and the Japs.

The claim succeeded, and an injunction to stop being naughty was issued by a court that also admitted it had no power whatsoever over the Japanese. Now, all that needs to be done is to give the Japs a thoroughly good telling off. Then they’ll go home, wailing all the way to Tokyo.

Or not, as the case will be.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd earlier promised that he would launch a naval fleet to intercept and perhaps argue (or have meaningful dialogue) with the Japanese whaling armada. Instead, he sent the national equivalent of a rubber raft. Rather than join those Greenpeace people who are seriously intent on disrupting the whalers, his Government said that Australian sailors would not swap information with them.

In the event, it was the environmentalists who found the Japs first.

We could have done with them at Pearl Harbour in 1941.

And now that Australia has signed up to Kyoto, it will of course cease digging up its country and exporting it to China, in an effort to dissuade the Chinese from further polluting our world.

Don’t hold your breath, waiting for the Rudd the Dud’s next Great Australian initiative.

Instead, hold on to it while you can.

In a matter of weeks, we’ve gone from Political Correctness to Political Insanity.