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

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

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

Does the Manager of Opposition Business claim to have been misrepresented?

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

Most mendaciously, Madam Speaker.

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

He may proceed.

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

On two occasions in question time today the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth mistreated words I had used in the past. Today he claimed that I had said that MySchool should be shut down. I have said no such thing. I said the NAPLAN raw data should not be published on the MySchool website, and that is an entirely different matter to closing down the website. Secondly, he repeated the false statement that I want to sack one in seven teachers. The federal government does not employ any teachers, so it was a completely mendacious and perfidious statement.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I table the Manager of Opposition Business's statement in the Australian Financial Review, 11 August 2012, about education and teachers being removed.