House debates Personal Explanations

Wednesday, 11 March 2009 House of Representatives

Jamie Briggs

Jamie Briggs Mayo, Liberal Party

3:46 pm

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Jamie Briggs

Jamie Briggs Mayo, Liberal Party

Unfortunately, I do.

Jamie Briggs

Jamie Briggs Mayo, Liberal Party

In an early edition of the Sydney Morning Herald today, it was suggested that I had said yesterday that Labor had a mandate for jobs. I said no such thing. In fact, I said that Labor had a plan to destroy many thousands of jobs. I notethe Sydney Morning Herald corrected this in its second edition.