Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Do you claim to have been misrepresented?

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed by way of indulgence.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In question time today, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection referred to alleged actions of my previous ministerial office during my first week in the portfolio. Every word was made up and entirely fictitious.