Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, Chris Pash has written the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end, revealing the fears, motives and actions of the whalers and the anti-whaling activists who risked their lives to stop them in a campaign that was Greenpeace's first direct action in Australia.
Join Chris in conversation with the major character of the book, Jonny Lewis.
CHRIS PASH (LOCAL) CHRIS PASH was a cadet journalist at the Albany Advertiser in 1977 when activists launched Greenpeace's first direct action in Australia. It was his on-the-spot reporting of the experiences of both whalers and activists during this time that inspired The Last Whale. After leaving Albany, he worked with Australian Associated Press as a reporter in Sydney, a staff correspondent in Papua New Guinea, the bureau chief in Adelaide and the editor-in-charge in Sydney. In 1995 Chris was the founding CEO of Asia Pulse, a joint regional venture of Asian news companies which pioneered the creation, aggregation and distribution of electronic content in the Asia-Pacific Region.
JONNY LEWIS (LOCAL) Photographer Jonny Lewis, a co-founder of Greenpeace Australia, piloted a Zodiac inflatable boat during the 1977 direct action campaign against Australia’s last whaling station.
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