Dan Boyle (Green Party)

We cannot be churlish about that.

The point concerning the abandonment of the people of Tibet in the interests of trade is an issue on which I share many of Senator Norris's concerns. At the time of the Olympic Games last year there was an international impetus to force the Chinese Government to engage in negotiations with representatives of Tibet, but how sincere they are and how that process is progressing is something about which we can ask legitimate questions. My party leader made a few remarks at our party convention that upset the Chinese ambassador at the time.