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"We will encourage Australia to leave," Alliance secretary Rune Frovik told AAP.

"It is not to turn the clock back and made the IWC into a whaling club, but covering nations that are interested in achieving the goals of managing whaling."

The IWC was originally set up to manage whaling and its executive nations recently expressed interest in taking a "managerial" role in whale hunting, which runs counter to Australia's bid to set up a global whale sanctuary.