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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I am not quite so secretive; I am really inviting the minister to discuss it in public. We will certainly go into private discussions about it. But I ask the minister: how on earth can any piece of legislation pass by Thursday and, if it does not, is the government considering changing the Senate sitting timetable? Secondly, this is a massive budgetary matter. Has the government got a new budget direction for the nation built into this package and, if so, what is it?