House debates Personal Explanations

Thursday, 26 November 2009 House of Representatives

Damian Hale

Damian Hale Solomon, Australian Labor Party

4:02 pm

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Damian Hale

Damian Hale Solomon, Australian Labor Party

Most grievously.

Damian Hale

Damian Hale Solomon, Australian Labor Party

This morning we had a game of soccer down on the Senate field, between the staff and the MPs. It was played in good spirit. The staff won the game of soccer 3-2. Since then there has been an email circulating around—and it was not Grech who sent it—saying that I happened to be the worst player on the ground. I can categorically say that the member for Dobell, the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and the member for Moreton were certainly worse than me on the day.

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

Having got to that point, I am not giving equal time to those mentioned!