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

Senator, we can take two weeks, we can take two months, we can take two years, but the Senate is here and the cheapest option in real money terms is for us to look at this again tomorrow. By far the best outcome for the nation is to get a resolution in the positive to allow the government to be the government of the day, and to not lead to the upheaval, the indecision and the inability of people to know what is going to happen with the stimulus package. The Greens have fought to get thousands more jobs through the amendments in this package and we do not want those delayed. I have given the argument from the Greens’ point of view and I am not going to hold the Senate up about that. But I am saying let us chart a way to get, if needs be, a resolution of this matter by tomorrow rather than in two weeks time, if that is possible.