Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to have been misrepresented?

Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do indeed.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The chamber was misled by the minister for education in the remarks that she made about statements I made last week concerning the Labor Party’s policy on assistance to private schools. She suggested that the proposition I put forward was a freeze. No such proposition was put forward by me. I made it amply clear in the statements that I made at that time that the real value of whatever grants any school was in receipt of at the time we were elected to government would be sustained. In other words, they would be adjusted in order to ensure their real value—that would be an upward adjustment—kept pace with inflation. Can I say, Mr Speaker, that in misleading this place—

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has explained where he has been misrepresented.

Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

she failed to recollect the fact that more than half the schools operate—

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat. He has made it clear where he felt he was misrepresented.