Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
3:09 pm
I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker
Does the member claim to have been misrepresented?
Brendan O'Connor Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
I do.
Leave granted.
In an article published in the Weekend Australian on Saturday entitled 'O'Connor silent on tugboats' it was reported that I was not willing to comment upon the Port Hedland dispute. This was a complete misrepresentation of my reply to a question at the AMMA conference in Perth on Friday. In fact, in reply to the question I said:
It is incumbent on parties to sit down and resolve differences.
And I added:
We'd rather see resolution rather than any conflict.