Ms Anna Burke Speaker
Does the member for Cowan claim to have been misrepresented?
Luke Simpkins Cowan, Liberal Party
I certainly do. The Prime Minister in question time said I had voted for more boats. That is not true. The government did not have the courage to bring the Malaysian solution to a vote.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Ms Anna Burke Speaker
Does the member for Sturt claim to have been misrepresented?
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training
I do—yet again by the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, who continues to make the statement that I want to dismiss one in seven teachers that work in schools. I point out to the House yet again—it must be the 20th time—that of course the federal government does not run any schools and does not employ any teachers, so the federal minister for education cannot dismiss any teachers, which makes the statement false.