On Thursday 10th December 2009, the Dalai Lama celebrated 20 years since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by holding a talk in Melbourne. Scott and Sarah had the honour of being there, and met with his Holiness after his speech.

Your messages in bottles to Peter Garrett, calling on him to introduce a national container deposit scheme, were delivered by Adele Carles WA Greens Member for Fremantle.

The petition, containing well over 2000 signatures, was presented to the Minister at the Environment Protection and Heritage Council meeting in Perth on November 5.

The Australian Greens were disappointed that the meeting decided to delay any announcement of a national scheme.

However we will continue to push for a widely-supported, national drink container deposit and recycling scheme.

On Tuesday, 8th September a large Petition bundle of SAVING AUSSIE BOOKS signatures were handed over to Federal Labor Members of Parliament - Arch Bevis, Graham Perrett and Steve Gibbons, and Australian Greens Senators Christine Milne and Scott Ludlam. All five spoke of their support for the Restrictions against Parallel Importation of Books and the utter importance of maintaining our viable and successful Australian publishing industry.

In July 2009, the first cross-party parliamentary delegation from Australia visited the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in Dharamsala, India. The delegation comprised Greens Senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Scott Ludlam, Independent Senator Nick Xenophon, Labor MPs Melissa Parke and Michael Danby, and Coalition MP Peter Slipper.

Many more photos can be viewed at www.facebook.com/sarahhansonyoung

Read more about the trip here.