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

In the wee hours of this morning I warned in this place that for the opposition to have its way with crossbench numbers to obstruct this legislation could lead to a potential double dissolution election. That will not now happen, even though the opposition has been left irrelevant to the further proceedings in the Senate. I made clear last night that the question was whether, for the purpose of this legislation, small business should be an enterprise of 20 or 15 employees. In fact, 500,000 employees in Australia fit between those definitions. The Greens were rock solid with the government that the definition—