Senate debates

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Motions

China: Arrest of Australian Citizens

12:43 pm

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

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   notes that a series of Australian citizens have been arrested and held in prison in China in recent years without prompt notification to the Australian Government; and

  (b)   calls on China to fulfil its diplomatic obligation and promptly notify Australia if any Australian citizen is apprehended in the future.

Question negatived.