Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
3:55 pm
I wish to make a personal explanation.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
Yes.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
During question time today I was misrepresented by the shadow small minister for business.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
Order! Come on, member for Oxley. It is the shadow minister for small business.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
He misquoted me.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
Member for Oxley, I think you might look at the phrasing of your description of the small minister.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
That was what I was hoping for from the shadow minister. He said that in a speech that I made I said that small businesses do not pay the carbon price.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
I have asked the parliamentary secretary to correct, for the record, the description of who he said he was misrepresented by.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
By the shadow minister.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
For small business.
Opposition members interjecting—
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
Almost as big as the shadow minister.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
Member for Oxley, you have the call to show where you have been misrepresented.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business
I quoted that small business do not pay the carbon price. In fact, what I said was that small businesses do not pay the carbon price. It is a price paid by Australia's biggest polluters.