Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

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

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, by the Prime Minister.

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

Please proceed.

Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) | Link to this | Hansard source

I refer to my question where I said:

I refer the Treasurer to the remarks overnight of someone he keeps referencing—the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown—that his government would ‘cut costs, cut inefficiencies, cut unnecessary programs and cut lower priority budgets’ to wind back the British fiscal stimulus.

I stand by my question. The Prime Minister ought to grow up.