Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) 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?

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Most grievously.

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

Please proceed.

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have to say it is becoming regular, but the Prime Minister today misquoted me in an interview which was on the Jon Faine program on 774 ABC radio in Victoria this morning. He extracted a very small part of a much longer sentence.

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

Order! The member must—

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will now read that—

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

Order! Just before the member for Murray continues, she should show where she has been misrepresented.

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes. I will now read the full quote. The fact is—

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

No. The member must show where in the statement to the House she was misrepresented.

Daryl Melham (Banks, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Melham interjecting

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

Order! The member for Banks!

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Okay. I will now indicate that, Mr Speaker. What the Prime Minister did was extract a part which just read: ‘There comes a time when a small place like Christmas Island simply cannot—

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker—

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

The Leader of the House will resume his seat. I am listening to the member for Murray.

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

continue to have thousands upon thousands stacked up.’ I would like to read the preamble, the few sentences before, and the few sentences after which will make that quote quite clear and in fact quite different to what the Prime Minister implied.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on a point of order: the member has been going for some time. She must go directly to where she has been misrepresented.

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

The Leader of the House will resume his seat. That is what I instructed the member for Murray to do. I was not assisted by the member for Banks. The member for Murray must now go to where she was misrepresented and correct the record, not debate. The member for Murray.

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I said:

But, if you are not in any way breaking down the pull factors, if you have still got this flotilla coming on down daily and big numbers continuing to descend upon you, there comes a time when a small place like Christmas Island simply cannot continue to have thousands upon thousands stacked up—

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

Order! The member has now explained, and that is it.

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Well, it goes on to make it clearer. I will refer people to the transcript.

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

The member for Murray will resume her seat.

Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to table the transcript.

Leave not granted.

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

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

I would just hope that people would leave the chamber and have a look at standing order 65(b) and at some stage apply that standing order. Regrettably, people think that they can, by sitting in the chamber, just speak and prattle on. There is a limit. The Manager for Opposition Business is seeking the call, and I am giving it to him, as a risk taker!