House debates Personal Explanations

Thursday, 19 March 2009 House of Representatives

Kirsten Livermore

Kirsten Livermore Capricornia, Australian Labor Party

4:23 pm

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Kirsten Livermore

Kirsten Livermore Capricornia, Australian Labor Party

I do, Mr Speaker.

Kirsten Livermore

Kirsten Livermore Capricornia, Australian Labor Party

Today’s Courier-Mail makes the claim that I have been gagged from speaking publicly on the issue of the emissions trading scheme. This is clearly not the case. And as an example, I point members to an article in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin on Wednesday, 18 March in which I was quoted extensively on precisely this issue.