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

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 501.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes the violent unrest in Xinjiang province (East Turkistan) in China on 5 July 2009 in which, according to official reports, up to 200 people died; and

(b)

calls on the Government to seek assurances from the People’s Republic of China that human and political rights are upheld, under the Chinese Constitution and international law for the Uighur people and to promote with Beijing an act of self determination for the Uighur people.

Question agreed to.