Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

On indulgence and for the benefit of the House, I seek to respond to the rather serious matter raised by the member for Paterson after question time yesterday, when he invited me to retract and indeed apologise for statements I made about amendments he made to a defence home ownership assistance bill earlier this month. There will be no such retraction or apology. The member for Paterson has been quite mischievous.

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