Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
9:04 am
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Yes, I do.
Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Yesterday the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy said in question time that in a speech I gave in 1999 I used words from a United Nations report without attribution. In fact, in my speech I made specific reference to the United Nations report when I said:
These examples were among a number in a 1999 Human Development Report I read recently—in a chapter on “New Technologies and the Global Race for Knowledge”.