House debates

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Personal Explanations

2:40 pm

Photo of Teresa GambaroTeresa Gambaro (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Settlement) Share this | | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Photo of Harry JenkinsHarry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Photo of Teresa GambaroTeresa Gambaro (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Settlement) Share this | | Hansard source

Yes

Photo of Harry JenkinsHarry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Photo of Teresa GambaroTeresa Gambaro (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Settlement) Share this | | Hansard source

I, along with other members, including Rowan Ramsey and Steve Irons, was misrepresented in the Australian online yesterday by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, who said that 'more and more MPs were breaking ranks with Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull's plan to demolish the NBN'. I was highlighting a broken promise made by the government to the constituents of Brisbane; I by no means said what I was quoted as saying in the Australian online.