House debates Personal Explanations

Tuesday, 3 December 2019 House of Representatives

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education and Training

3:14 pm

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

Does the member for Sydney claim to have been misrepresented?

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education and Training

I do.

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

The member for Sydney may proceed.

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education and Training

The Attorney-General sought to equate the failure of the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction to declare shares held in a family trust with my declaration of a trust established by my 87-year-old mother-in-law decades ago. I have no knowledge of the operation of my mother-in-law's finances, nor am I a beneficiary of the trust. The Attorney-General should be ashamed for dragging my mother-in-law, who lives in a nursing home, into his grubby political attack.