Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) | Link to this | Hansard source

Yesterday the member for Cook said in the chamber that I had engaged in a 'blatant falsehood' by saying that he had said the infrastructure costs on Nauru would be $10 million. I table a document which shows the five separate occasions on which the member for Cook said exactly that publicly.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister for schools continues to claim that I want to sack one in seven teachers. I would point out to the House that the Commonwealth government does not employ any teachers in government or non-government schools—they are employed by the states—so that is a patently false statement.