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

I, and also on behalf of Senator Xenophon, move:

That the Senate—

(a) endorses the meetings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Coalition leaders Messrs Tony Abbott and Warren Truss, and Australian Greens’ Leader Senator Bob Brown;

(b) expresses disappointment that neither the Prime Minister (Ms Gillard) nor the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Rudd) were available to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama;

(c) notes that the last Prime Minister to meet His Holiness was Mr John Howard in 2007; and

(d) wishes the people of Tibet well in their aspiration to have His Holiness return home to Tibet’s capital, Lhasa.

Question agreed to.