House debates
Monday, 2 March 2026
Statements
Personal Explanation
3:13 pm
Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source
During question time today, only a few moments ago, the member for Rankin made a series of misrepresentations of my positions on matters. Firstly, he claimed that I 'want to privatise Medicare'. That is not the case. I believe in sustainable Medicare. He claimed that I want to 'dismantle superannuation'. That is not true. I simply want to stop the corruption and make sure that homeownership takes precedence. He claimed that I had referred to work-from-home as apartheid. This is a very close verballing of what I said. The Allan government of Victoria has created a work-from-home program, which they have described as a right, which will not extend to everybody. So it is they who are engaging in that practice. I am criticising them for engaging in that practice. I will say the Treasurer did get one thing right, which is that I am an extremist for small and family businesses and the self-employed.
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