Jenny Macklin Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments
3:10 pm
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Jenny Macklin Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments
Yes, Madam Speaker—twice, by the Prime Minister in question time, knowingly, I suspect.
Jenny Macklin Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments
The Prime Minister said that I was a midwife and the assistant to the GP co-payment back in the 1990s. This is false. The Prime Minister knows that it is false. I was not the midwife nor the assistant to the co-payment. I opposed the co-payment in the 1990s, and I oppose it now.
Andrew Leigh Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Andrew Leigh Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer
Yes, Madam Speaker, I do, most grievously.
Andrew Leigh Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer
On three occasions during question time, the Prime Minister suggested that I support the government's GP tax. This is false. The Prime Minister should worry more about what he promised last year while he was campaigning for election than what I wrote when I was in university.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker
I might say that when you have a personal explanation, it is not an opportunity to entertain debate.
Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education
He is very embarrassed, Madam Speaker!