House debates Personal Explanations

Thursday, 14 June 2007 House of Representatives

Wilson Tuckey

Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party

3:37 pm

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

David Hawker

David Hawker Speaker

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Wilson Tuckey

Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party

Yes.

Wilson Tuckey

Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party

During question time the Leader of the Opposition misrepresented me with a selective extract from a short comment attributed to me by the AAP at the doorstop this morning. The complete short quote is:

“It’s his house and we say it’s his house because we insist that the prime minister of the day lives either there or in the Lodge,” Mr Tuckey told reporters.

Clearly the reference to ‘we’ is the Australian people and not any other party.

David Hawker

David Hawker Speaker

Order! The member will not debate his explanation.