Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence) 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 honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

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

Please proceed.

Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In question time today the Leader of the Opposition claimed that I had said that young homebuyers ‘would sit on milk crates’. I reject this claim outright. The Prime Minister has correctly identified the outright misrepresentation by the Leader of the Opposition. I table the Hansard, which confirms I made no such statement in my own right. I demand that the Leader of the Opposition not misrepresent me or anyone else in this chamber.

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

Order! The member for Herbert will resume his seat.

Roger Price (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. A member should confine themselves, as you have often said, to where they have been misrepresented. The member went much further than that in his personal explanation. I would ask the Speaker to apply the same rules to the government that he applies to the opposition.

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

The Chief Opposition Whip will not reflect on the chair. The Chief Opposition Whip would have noticed that I asked the member to resume his seat when it was obvious he was going beyond a personal explanation.