House debates Statements

Personal Explanation

Monday, 14 February 2022 House of Representatives

Anthony Albanese

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

3:25 pm

I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Andrew Wallace

Andrew Wallace Speaker

Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to have been misrepresented?

Anthony Albanese

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

I do, by the minister for immigration during question time.

Anthony Albanese

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

The minister for immigration made a number of imputations in his response. The facts are these: his imputations are wrong, as demonstrated by the fact that the courts upheld his right as a minister to cancel a visa in the globally covered case around Novak Djokovic. He knows it. The whole of the parliament knows it, and he is being deliberately—deliberately—misleading in his characterisation he gave in his answer.