Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

For the second time yesterday in question time the Minister for Social Services selectively misrepresented 12-year-old quotes attributed to myself, claiming they were about Labor's Paid Parental Leave Scheme. In fact, they were about the Liberal Party's proposed paid parental leave scheme at the time—a scheme that the Minister for Social Services herself opposed. To evidence this, on the panel of Q&A at the time, the then Labor minister Bill Shorten interrupted me, expecting I was criticising his policy, before correcting himself as he realised I was criticising Liberal policy, and said, 'Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, keep going.' To evidence my claim, I seek leave to table a copy of the transcript highlighting the minister's misrepresentation.

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