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

by leave—Senator Fielding is absolutely right, and the break should be an hour. I have told the Leader of the Government in the Senate that we will not agree to hours like this being set again without a decent meal break. This is the end of it. Senator Fielding is right: there should be a meal break when there are extended sitting hours like these. We will not allow this to happen again unless the Senate votes otherwise.