Age: IN DIPLOMATIC language, it was a roasting. Australia boxed Argentina’s ears for blocking a tough new step against pirate fishing in Antarctica. “We used to be world leaders in combatting (illegal) fishing,” Australian delegation head Dr Tony Press told the Antarctic Treaty’s fisheries organisation in November. “We have gone from being innovative to ‘dumb and dumber’.” The annual pillage of Southern Ocean toothfish was estimated at 100,000 tonnes, valued at $700 million at its peak a …