Reforms to the nation's hate speech laws are unlikely to pass parliament with the coalition and Greens rejecting the government's draft proposal.
The Greens would not support the bill in its current form because it could have unintended consequences, senator Mehreen Faruqi said.
"The legacy of the horrific and appalling violence in Bondi cannot be the undermining of political, civil and human rights," she told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
"This bill is broad, it is vast and it is really complex and we need to make sure that it is scrutinised and that we do our due diligence on this bill."
Senator Faruqi said any changes to hate speech protections needed to address all forms of discrimination, not just anti-Semitism as intended by the federal government in the wake of December's Bondi Beach massacre.
"Otherwise you're not actually going towards social cohesion," she said.
"That actually causes more division as people feel targeted and marginalised."
Senator David Shoebridge said the Greens were continuing to work with Labor, but wouldn't be "trapped" by a timeline of passing the bill next week.
"The government created this timetable under significant pressure from the coalition who tried to force incredibly complex legislation ... into some rapid-fire legislative process," he said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was working with Greens leader Larissa Waters and maintained that passing the laws urgently was important.
"What I want to do is fight for our national interest and fight for our national unity. That's my priority," he told reporters in Queensland.
With the opposition also critical of the changes, that appears unlikely without a major rewrite.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley said the coalition would oppose the bill when parliament resumed, describing it as "pretty unsalvageable" and a clumsy attempt to combat anti-Semitism.
The draft laws seek to crack down on hate preachers, increase penalties for hate speech and create a national gun buy-back scheme after two Islamic-inspired shooters killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event.
Ms Ley told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday her party would continue to scrutinise the legislation.
"Our job is to pass laws that contain clear offences for courts and police to use. Instead, the flaws in this bill will add confusion and delay in the charging and sentencing of terrorist offenders," she said.
Mr Albanese said the opposition had spoken out against the proposed reform without examining what was in the laws.
"People have dismissed this legislation that they called for, without even reading it. They made comments about what is not right," he said.
"After calling for parliament to be brought back, they're now saying what's the rush, parliament can wait into the never-never before we act on these important issues."
The opposition leader denied she was being hypocritical and maintained parliament should have been recalled before Christmas.
"We wanted immediate action ... they've taken a month to deliver this bad bill," Ms Ley said.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Peter Wertheim urged the opposition to vote for the legislation and "not allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good".
"By all means seek to amend the bill to remove its shortcomings but a wholesale rejection of the bill would not at all be warranted," he said.
"The defeat of the bill would be a retrograde step."
Barnaby Joyce, who has recently joined One Nation, said the party would not back the legislation because it would punish "recreational pig shooters in country areas" who should not be lumped in with terrorists.
A report on the hate speech reforms is due on Friday before debate begins on Monday when parliament returns.
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