John Cobb Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security
3:33 pm
Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Ms Anna Burke Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
John Cobb Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security
I do.
John Cobb Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security
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
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
I withdraw.
Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
3:34 pm
Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Ms Anna Burke Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Yes.
Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
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.