Alby Schultz (Hume, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member for Hume claim to have been misrepresented?

Alby Schultz (Hume, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Most assuredly.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Hume has the call.

Alby Schultz (Hume, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On Sunday, 19 May 2013, two reporters, Steve Lewis and Lanai Scarr, had an article in the Herald Sun headed 'On the road again'. I quote from the article the issue that I need to raise in this House today:

And while Tony Abbott has asked his colleagues to pare back foreign trips, a host of retiring Coalition members of parliament—including Patrick Secker, Paul Neville, Mal Washer and Alby Schultz—have been dusting off their passports for visits to Indonesia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Zambia and Ecuador.

I just want to put on the public record that, over my 25 years in state and federal politics, I have heard some pretty classic examples of the bottom end of journalism but the two authors of that particular article have reached the tail end.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member needs to show where he has been misrepresented.

Alby Schultz (Hume, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

What they said is absolutely wrong; I have no intentions of going overseas. I never had any intentions of going overseas in the manner in which the article has been pushed out into the public arena.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to have been misrepresented?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has the call.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In question time today the Prime Minister claimed that I had not sought security briefings. I have in fact received security briefings. On 29 January 2010, on 1 February 2010, on 23 February 2010, on 10 May 2010, on 12 July 2010, on 21 August 2010, on 26 April 2011, on 16 December 2011, on 7 May 2012 and on three occasions in Afghanistan I received security briefings from officials of the Australian government.

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

Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | 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) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Sturt has the call.

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

In question time today the Prime Minister suggested that I wanted to cut $16.2 billion from schools over the next four years. I seek leave to table the chart and the story in The Australian by David Crowe which utterly explodes the myth the government is trying to create. In fact, the only people wanting to cut funding are those in the government—by $325 million—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member will resume his seat. Is leave granted?

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

Not on your nelly.