Philip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party) 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?

Philip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, I do grievously.

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

Please proceed.

Philip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

During an answer in question time the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship accused me, as a former minister, of not consulting communities in relation to the establishment of detention facilities. Port Hedland was established under Labor, Curtin was established under Labor, Woomera has next to no local community engaged, and Baxter was in the countryside, but, when it came to establishing premises in Port Augusta for the children and their parents, very extensive consultation took place with the Mayor, Joy Baluch. As the Deputy Prime Minister might also vouch for, there was also very considerable consultation when we considered a detention facility in Brisbane in his electorate.

Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government) 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?

Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

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

Please proceed.

Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

An article in today’s Australian by James Jeffrey claims, under a heading ‘Night of long knives’, that I was in a Vietnamese restaurant called Hoang Hau in Kingston along with Bill Shorten and Kate Ellis plotting the downfall of Kevin Rudd. I would never have done that and I was not there.