Two-Day session and 28 days Quarantine, Tibetan Parliamentarian finally returns to Brisbane

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The Member for Australiasia & Asia (excluding Bhutan, Nepal & India) to the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Tenzin Doring finally returns home in Brisbane on Wednesday night last week following more than a month in India that included oath-taking ceremony followed by parliamentary session. He was received at airport by his wife, son, Tsultrim and Dawoe. 


Doring left for India on 28th September from Brisbane airport and reached Dharamsala, India on 30th October after transiting through Doha, Qatar which took 27 hours of flight. 

He travelled to India for parliamentary business despite being advised and rejected three times for exemption to travel to India owing to ongoing Covid restrictions on the outbound movement. However, after finally securing exemption he left for India for what was known to be the most important session in the history of Tibetan parliament in exile. His return to Australia remained unknown at the time of leaving due to no return flights to Australia till mid-December.

Though Doring virtually missed the two-day informal session as reported by some Tibetan media in India, he was present during the presentation of the His Holiness signed official advisory letter on October 4 that was read amongst the 45 members gathered for its hearing following which Doring took oath on October 8 along with other 44 members and attended the two-day session that followed. 

Upon his supposed return to Australia on October 21, he tested positive for Covid 19 following RTCPR test conducted at Delhi’s ITC Hotel quarantine and couldn’t fly to Australia. He returned to Dharamsala where CTA administered isolation centre took care of him for 14 days during which he was administered Tibetan medication as well as daily check-up. On November 12, he was tested negative for Covid and finally returned to Australia not before he tested another negative at ITC Hotel in Delhi and completed 14 days mandatory quarantine at Darwin facility during which three tests were conducted which all returned negative. It took total of 28 days quarantine both in India and Australia, and six RTPCR tests in 30 days long before he saw his family in Brisbane 54 days later. 

Soon after reaching home, he met with Drew Pavlau, who took keen interest in understanding Tibetan parliamentary system in exile and discussed future course of actions on freedom movement in Brisbane and Australia.



Doring with Parliamentarians from NA and EU, Tibetan Parliament, Dharamsala







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