De-Anne Kelly Dawson, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services
4:25 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
David Hawker Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
De-Anne Kelly Dawson, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services
Yes, I do.
De-Anne Kelly Dawson, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services
Yesterday the member for Hotham claimed that I had misrepresented him. He stated, in support of that claim, that Labor would not abolish the Regional Partnerships program. Further, he asserted that my statement in the Mackay Daily Mercury of last Friday was false. I claimed that the member for Hotham was a hypocrite in relation to his assertion that the government had failed to fund the aquatic centre in Mackay in accordance with the Regional Partnerships program. I made the assertion that Labor, if it were elected, would abolish that program.
David Hawker Speaker
Order! The member will show where she has been personally misrepresented.
De-Anne Kelly Dawson, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services
Mr Speaker, my assertion was absolutely correct, and I quote from a frontbencher in the Labor Party who said—
David Hawker Speaker
The member has only to show where she has been misrepresented. She has done that. As there is not any further point that the member wishes to make, the member has made her personal explanation.