House debates

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Personal Explanations

3:13 pm

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Speaker, I do wish to make a personal explanation.

Photo of Mrs Bronwyn BishopMrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Does the member claimed to have been misrepresented?

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | | Hansard source

I do.

Photo of Mrs Bronwyn BishopMrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Then you have indulgence to proceed.

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | | Hansard source

Thank you. During question time today, the Minister for Immigration claimed that I want to 'bring these terrorists back into Australia'. This statement is completely false. I made a personal explanation in the House yesterday in respect of two previous similar false statements by the Prime Minister. I have clearly stated that any dual citizen taking up arms against Australia should be stripped of their citizenship. The repeated misrepresentation of my position by the government is nothing more than a cheap political smear.