I'm 65 percent happy about it. You've always got a feeling in the back of your head that there could be problems in the future.

What it does is it means in the Senate the argument of 'let that one go through for the sake of being a team player' now has very little weight.

If you break up a marriage you have to suffer the repercussions of the lack of trust that is then brought into it when we get back to Canberra in February.