Peter Slipper (Fisher, 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?

Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

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

The member for Fisher.

Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It has been drawn to my attention that during my response to an unprovoked attack on me by former Liberal member for Longman Mal Brough shown on Channel 7 Sunshine Coast last Friday—oddly enough, read by Mr Brough’s brother Rob, who is a nice guy—I was reported as saying that, if Mr Brough wanted to return to politics, he should contest his former electorate of Longman, now so ably represented by the honourable member for Longman. What I in fact said, referring to the last election, was that if Mr Brough had been interested in returning to federal politics then he should have contested the seat of Longman. It was incorrect to suggest that I implied that the honourable member for Longman should stand aside for someone already comprehensively rejected by the people of that electorate.