Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have been misrepresented most grievously.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You may proceed.

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last night in the Federation Chamber, the member for Kooyong claimed I had failed to speak on the Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025 or move my second reading amendment to the legislation. The member should be aware that I did speak on this very important bill 10 hours earlier at the dispatch box right here in the chamber, where I also moved the amendment. Thanks to the very fine work of the Hansard office, my remarks were published by 3 pm, four hours before the member for Kooyong rose to speak. If the member for Kooyong is so eager to scrutinise defence, perhaps she could start by scrutinising the Hansard.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Hume did stray at the end there, but I didn't want to interrupt him. That's not the precise way of making a personal explanation, with commentary at the end. I'm sure that was an oversight.