Harry Jenkins Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party
During question time, the member for Jagajaga misrepresented me by omission by deliberately excluding my other remarks in the radio interview to which she referred, such as my celebration of the modern-day success of women such as Gail Kelly at Westpac.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Order! The member for O’Connor needs to show where he was misrepresented and not debate the question.
Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party
I am stating the facts of the misrepresentation by omission. In other words, if you leave out half the story, you tell a lie.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
The member for O’Connor has made his point. By the way he has phrased it, he is starting to indicate that he is going to debate the question—
Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party
I am not going to debate it. I am too old for that.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
By the use of certain expressions he is widening it. Unless he has anything else to add to address his alleged misrepresentation, I will have to sit him down.
Wilson Tuckey O'Connor, Liberal Party
Yes. The member for Jagajaja omitted my reference to gene transfer in the Ablett family in the arena of human sport, and of course the circumstances where the female partner is the principal breadwinner in a family, and there is the resulting negative financial effect of parenthood that the Abbott scheme has an answer to.
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition
3:41 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition
repeatedly by the Prime Minister, who is a serial offender in this matter. He claimed in parliament today that the opposition’s paid parental leave proposal involved a levy on businesses with a $5 million turnover. This is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong. It is completely wrong. It is a lie, and he should be—
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Order! The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat.
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House
Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order and ask that the comment be withdrawn.
Harry Jenkins Speaker
There was nothing in the first part which I could hear. When I was speaking over the Leader of the Opposition I do not know whether anything unparliamentary was said, but I did not think so. I am not sure whether it was at the start of the contribution or at the end of the contribution.
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House
That was not a personal explanation. We are seeing an abuse of personal explanations by those opposite. The opposition leader indicated it at the beginning of his contribution. He then went on to use unparliamentary language—
Harry Jenkins Speaker
Order! The Leader of the House will resume his seat. As I said to him, the only thing that I heard was at the start, where there was an unnecessary addition. But, regarding the explanation, I asked the Leader of the Opposition to resume his seat because I thought that there might be trouble coming and I thought that he had had the opportunity to at least get his point on the record. There was nothing that I could hear at that point that needed to be withdrawn. Unfortunately, because there are no papers, I do not have the opportunity to review the situation.