John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) 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?

John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

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

Please proceed.

John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Watson, the environment minister, claimed that on behalf of the coalition I was moving a disallowance on the fact that the Howard government established the south-east marine park and the management plan there, too. Not so. As the minister would know if he listened or didn't tell porkies, in actual fact what we are moving is a disallowance of a management plan of the Gillard government.

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

The member will resume his seat. The member for Calare should withdraw.

Opposition members: 'Porkies'?

And now I might get everybody on the front bench to withdraw! The member for Calare.

John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I withdraw.

Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) 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?

Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

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

Please proceed.

Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In question time today the member for Stirling and the member for Sturt both asserted my statements in the parliament in relation to a detainee held in detention were inconsistent. I reject that assertion. What happened there, of course, was the effort to use parliamentary procedure in order to allow the member for Wentworth to come back and do his MPI.