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A visit in January 2004 .....

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Tibet & Tibetan Buddhism Archive To Taipei and beyond... I visited Taiwan for a week in January 2004 as part of an Australian federal parliamentary delegation, involving myself Michael Organ (Australian Greens), Michael Danby (Australian Labour Party), David Johnson (Liberal Party) and Peter Slipper (Library Party). The following account of that visit was largely written during late January 2004, shortly after returning from Taiwan. I have supplemented the original record with some notes from 2014, as I look back and reflect on that time. During the delegation I was accompanied by my then wife Jeanette. Likewise Michael Danby was accompanied by his wife and the two spent some time together as the politicians were engaged in official activities associated with the visit. The delegation was in Taiwan for approximately a week, with the majority of that time spent in the capital Taipei attending the international conference on parliamentary issues as they pertained to Taiwan, entit