Mark Coulton Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation
3:51 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Mark Coulton Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation
Most grievously.
Mark Coulton Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation
I refer to the article in today’s Dubbo Daily Liberal with the headline ‘Coulton votes against black-spot funding’ which refers to a press release of yesterday from the Hon. Anthony Albanese. The press release states:
Yesterday in Canberra—
that would be Monday—
Mark Coulton, National Party member for Parkes, voted against $295,000 in funding to address a road black spot in his electorate.
The bill that he was referring to was the Nation Building Program (National Land Transport)—
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House
Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member has to show where he has been misrepresented.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
The member for Parkes will explain to the House the misrepresentation.
Mark Coulton Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation
I am getting to that right now. The nation-building transport amendment bill had no appropriations. It was a bill to change the name of AusLink to some other rewriting of history. The minister was misrepresenting to the people of Dubbo the truth of what happened on Monday.