House debates Personal Explanations

Tuesday, 11 May 2021 House of Representatives

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

3:30 pm

I wish to make a personal explanation.

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

I do.

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

During question time the Prime Minister, in trying to avoid answering questions about his JobMaker program, gave a quote from myself about the government's JobKeeper program, in which I pointed towards the danger of an early ending of that program, which was due to end at the end of June last year. The quote from me indicated that that would have a devastating impact. What the Prime Minister didn't go on to do, by quoting it out of context, in terms of the timetable, was acknowledge that I was correct by extending the JobKeeper beyond June at that time.