Fed: Govt still uncertain if it has votes for stimulus package

AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-2009
Fed: Govt still uncertain if it has votes for stimulus package

By Sandra O'Malley, Susanna Dunkerley and Richard Lawson

CANBERRA, Feb 8 AAP - The federal government is still in the dark as to whether it
will be able to secure enough votes in the Senate to get its $42 billion economic stimulus
package through the parliament.

Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull - who opposes the package in its current form -
has offered to sit down with the government to discuss his problems with measures aimed
at staving off recession.

"What we want to do ... is sit down with (Prime Minister Kevin) Rudd …