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 Deputy-Speaker
Does the minister claim to have been misrepresented?
Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health
Yes, I do.
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.