House debates Questions without Notice: Additional Answers

Electronic Security

Tuesday, 23 June 2009 House of Representatives

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House

3:51 pm

Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

The minister may proceed.

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House

For the purposes of clarity, I provided to the Leader of the Opposition a copy of the Hansard because there was some concern with my answer in response to a question. Having read it, he is certainly satisfied. I said:

… interestingly, Mr Speaker, just two weeks ago, two weeks ago, the day after the first question was raised, based upon a fake email, by those opposite, it was National E-Security Awareness Week.

It was quite clear that I was saying—and the Leader of the Opposition has accepted this—that it is a fake email and it was raised by those opposite. For clarity, there was no other intent.