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

The member for Goldstein has indicated that he is seeking the call on a personal explanation. Do you claim to have been misrepresented?

Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

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

You may proceed.

Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yesterday in question time when the Minister for Education pronounced Goldstein correctly, he misrepresented a speech in the Federation Chamber claiming quotes attributed to myself were in relation to the government's student HECS debt deferral scheme. As the Hansard from the Federation Chamber will show, what I described as 'one of the most despicable things that I have seen a Labor government seek to do' was celebrating their record as HECS firefighters when they were inflation arsonists.

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

The member for Goldstein has a second misrepresentation. Do you claim to have been misrepresented?

Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

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

You may proceed.

Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

For the second time yesterday in question time the Minister for Social Services selectively misrepresented 12-year-old quotes attributed to myself, claiming they were about Labor's Paid Parental Leave Scheme. In fact, they were about the Liberal Party's proposed paid parental leave scheme at the time—a scheme that the Minister for Social Services herself opposed. To evidence this, on the panel of Q&A at the time, the then Labor minister Bill Shorten interrupted me, expecting I was criticising his policy, before correcting himself as he realised I was criticising Liberal policy, and said, 'Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, keep going.' To evidence my claim, I seek leave to table a copy of the transcript highlighting the minister's misrepresentation.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is not granted, but he can keep talking himself for as long as he wants.

Leave not granted.