Mark Coulton (Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Mark Coulton (Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Most grievously.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Mark Coulton (Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member has to show where he has been misrepresented.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Parkes will explain to the House the misrepresentation.

Mark Coulton (Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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.