Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. I welcome the decision by the Prime Minister—and, indeed, the Leader of the Opposition—to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I ask the minister: will the Prime Minister be using this opportunity, and his good offices, to bring about a win-win reconciliation situation between the exiled Tibetan leadership and people and the People’s Republic of China? If the minister does not know the answer to that, I ask if he would put the recommendation to the Prime Minister that he use this opportunity to move towards a pre-Olympics reconciliation between the Tibetan people and China, which of course would be a win for China, for Tibet and for the whole world.