Stuart Robert Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services
3:09 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Tony Smith Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Stuart Robert Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services
Most egregiously.
Stuart Robert Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services
The member for Isaacs and this House know full well that the insinuation that the member for Isaacs made in the House has been well investigated and well cleared by the AFP, the AEC, the ECQ and any other agency that those opposite have referred it to. No amount of mudslinging will clear the stench that currently covers the Labor Party on this issue. The member for Isaacs knows it. The Labor Party knows it.
Bill Shorten Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition
3:10 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Tony Smith Speaker
Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to have been misrepresented?
Bill Shorten Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition
Yes.
Bill Shorten Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition
Today in question time the Leader of the House repeated yet another false allegation about me regarding my time leading the Australian Workers' Union. As was explained in today's Australian, the claim was false. No rules were broken; no conflict existed. I am advised that the reporting error was corrected. This is nothing more than an inaccurate and undergraduate smear from a minister who is fiddling while weekend penalty rates for 700,000 Australians burn.