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

‘Wonderful,’ says the senator opposite. Does he say it is wonderful that the Prime Minister has been humiliated today? The Prime Minister wanted legislation rammed through this place. He thought he had the numbers to do it, but some people of conscience and of a greater decency than the Prime Minister have said, ‘We won’t go along with that,’ and so the government finds that the going gets tough. We have to thank those decent senators, and indeed those members of the House, who have stood up against the draconian components of the immigration legislation. We will see more of it.