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

Dear, oh dear! I am looking forward to going home to my constituency. Obviously, the opposition are very worried. Maybe they will stay here for the next fortnight. The reality is that it is a great outcome. It is a tribute to the Senate and it is a tribute to the balance of power. Compare this with the last three years, when the government had no brake in the Senate and used the Senate as a rubber stamp, and the people were so frustrated that they changed government. The wisdom of that change has been rewarded today. I again congratulate—