Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I'd like to add to that and take the interjection of Senator O'Sullivan: why don't we get back to the substantive debate here? We have a situation in this chamber where a single vote will dictate whether a $144 billion tax package gets locked in for the Australian people, a package that my party, the Australian Greens, disagrees with so strongly on so many levels. If a senator in this place—and none of us is perfect; we all make mistakes, myself included—gets up in here during a critical committee stage before a vote to remove stage 3 of this bill and doesn't understand what she's voting on—literally doesn't understand the detail of why, even by changing a tax bracket, a threshold, she will benefit from that—then she simply doesn't understand how any of it works. That is not only dangerous for the Australian people—