You would think that Sydney University would feel privileged that a person of the standing of the Dalai Lama should choose to visit their humble establishment. Not so, its does seem Chinese money outweighs the power of a World leader.
Beach person, there is no headline hunting here by John Kaye or anyone from The Greens, the headlines are there for all to see, including you.

Dear onthebeach,

There's no "promotion" going on here.

This is an online - public forum dealing with
social and political debate. And this topic
has been put up for discussion. The only
"promoting" that seems to be going on is
your "Greens" conspiracy theory.

You can believe whatever you want, I frankly don't
really care.

However the facts remain - that China'suman rights
record in Tibet remains a controversial issue in
Australia. Sydney university's new Institute for
Democracy and Human Rights organised an on
campus talk by the Dalai Lama during his 10 day
visit in June. The university was notified and agreed
to it from the beginning - as the emails shown on
the 7.30 Report showed. And then the university changed
its mind forcing the Institute to find other alternatives
for the Dalali Lama's talk.

The university now says it did not receive an "official
request from the Dalai Lama," which is simply fudging
things and trying to save face. It was the Institute
that had contacted the Dalai Lama - with the university's
full knowledge.

cont'd ...

One thing I had forgotten to mention and
it may be of interest to you because you
had expressed an interest in Lithuania
in one of your posts on another discussion
is the fact that Tibet's spiritual leader the
Dalai Lama will come to Lithuania in September
this year. His representative in London,
Thubten Samdup, confimred this on Friday.

Of course Lithuania can always change its mind,
as Sydney university did. It shall be interesting
to see whether it does.

I wonder whether they have Greens in Lithuania?

cont'd ...

Alternatively, I wonder whether Lithuania
has any trade-agreements with China?

Once again,

<Sydney University issued a statement on Thursday saying it never received any official request about the Dalai Lama.

A university spokesman said representatives of the Dalai Lama's office in Australia approached a student about the possibility of arranging a lecture last year>

The university administration cannot be bypassed by a student activist who takes things into her own hands.

And,

<It says staff discussed possible arrangements but the only time available was during uni holidays in June, when most students would not be on campus.

"The Dalai Lama's office agreed to an alternative proposal for him to address a wider group of students from across a number of universities in the city, including from the University of Sydney," the statement said> [from the link posted previously]

What can be better than that? The Dalai Lama gets to address students from across a number of universities, including the University of Sydney.

That being so, the only ones who stand to gain from this continued muck-raking to get headlines would be the protest party, the NSW Greens.

Once again:

1) Sydney university has gone to great lengths to
forbid the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights
from using its logo, not allowing any media coverage
of the event and disallowing Tibetan activists to attend
the talk.

2) They overturned the decision for the talk - to move
the event off campus stating that no university staff
member or academic was allowed to be involved in the event.

And this from a university that has an Institute for Democracy
and Human Rights on its campus?

Here's a link on what the Institute teaches:

http://sydney.edu.au/arts/idhr/human_rights/index.shtml

You'd think that the university which after all according
to its own Facebook site states:

"Students and researchers from all over the world
form a community dedicated to unveiling new insights
that change the world around us."

Then why did the university not issue an invitation to
the Dalai Lama?

Oh, I forgot - it's a Greens conspiracy.

What a joke!

However bravery and ideals always win in the end.