House debates

Thursday, 19 March 2009

Personal Explanations

4:23 pm

Photo of Kirsten LivermoreKirsten Livermore (Capricornia, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Photo of Harry JenkinsHarry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Photo of Kirsten LivermoreKirsten Livermore (Capricornia, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I do, Mr Speaker.

Photo of Harry JenkinsHarry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Photo of Kirsten LivermoreKirsten Livermore (Capricornia, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Today’s Courier-Mail makes the claim that I have been gagged from speaking publicly on the issue of the emissions trading scheme. This is clearly not the case. And as an example, I point members to an article in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin on Wednesday, 18 March in which I was quoted extensively on precisely this issue.