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Japan is still seeking a diplomatic solution to its disagreement with Australia over whaling, despite fresh threats of legal action by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

AFP - A row about whaling hung over a visit to Australia by Japan's foreign minister on Saturday, coming a day after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned of legal action to stop Japan's annual whale hunt.

The Federal Opposition is urging Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to act on his threat of legal action over Japan's continued whaling, while the Greens labelled the threats as a joke.

Kevin Rudd has held talks with the Japanese foreign minister over his whaling threat.

AUSTRALIA will exhaust all diplomatic efforts to stop Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean before resorting to legal action, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.

AUSTRALIA will exhaust all diplomatic efforts to stop Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean before resorting to legal action, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has defended Mike Rann, the South Australian Labor premier at the centre of an alleged sex scandal.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he is willing to give ground on the Opposition's demands for agriculture's exclusion from the government's carbon pollution reduction scheme, the CPRS.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is set for a stoush with the ACT government over territory laws allowing same-sex civil union ceremonies.