House debates Personal Explanations

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 House of Representatives

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health

3:10 pm

Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke

Ms Anna Burke Deputy-Speaker

Does the minister claim to have been misrepresented?

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health

Yes, I do.

Ms Anna Burke

Ms Anna Burke Deputy-Speaker

The minister has the call.

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health

I want to correct an article by Karen Dearne on page 34 of the Australian today. I have corrected the figures that she has wrongly used before. I corrected them in February. She is about half a billion dollars out again. Journalists are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.