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

by leave—I note this very reasonable amendment and Senator Xenophon’s Grecian earnestness. I am very happy to accept the amendment. I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate calls on the Australian Government to make representations to the British Government to undertake the permanent return of the Parthenon Marbles to the Greek Government and the people of Greece recognising that the marbles were part of the Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens and should be returned to their historical home.