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

by leave—I inform the Senate that, in a reappointment of remarkable stability, on 8 September members of the Greens party room reappointed me as leader, Senator Milne as deputy leader and Senator Rachel Siewert as whip.

I would also like to add a word of great thanks for the service of Neil Bessell, a remarkably courteous and intelligent gentleman and a helpful officer of this Senate. His contribution has marked many of us and helped many of us, and I pay tribute to his dedicated service to the national parliament.