Julian Leeser Berowra, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians
3:12 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Julian Leeser Berowra, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians
Most grievously so.
Julian Leeser Berowra, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians
In question time, the Prime Minister quoted some words I said in the second reading debate on the temporary exclusion orders bill in 2019. What the Prime Minister didn't mention was that I was directly explaining how temporary exclusion orders would allow returns to be managed and why they should only be used in our security interests. The government refuses to issue temporary exclusion orders under its self-managed return policy. The government refuses to do exactly the thing that I said the government should do when I addressed the House in 2019. To imply my position is supportive of the government's current approach, as the Prime Minister has done, is misleading and disingenuous.
Milton Dick Speaker
Just before we get to the member for Goldstein, when people are doing a misrepresentation, you simply state where the misrepresentation has occurred, not an explanation around it. Short and sharp is the order of business when it comes to misrepresentation, so I hope the member for Goldstein has picked up that cue.
Tim Wilson Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer
3:13 pm
I wish to make a personal explanation.
Tim Wilson Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer
During question time today, only a few moments ago, the member for Rankin made a series of misrepresentations of my positions on matters. Firstly, he claimed that I 'want to privatise Medicare'. That is not the case. I believe in sustainable Medicare. He claimed that I want to 'dismantle superannuation'. That is not true. I simply want to stop the corruption and make sure that homeownership takes precedence. He claimed that I had referred to work-from-home as apartheid. This is a very close verballing of what I said. The Allan government of Victoria has created a work-from-home program, which they have described as a right, which will not extend to everybody. So it is they who are engaging in that practice. I am criticising them for engaging in that practice. I will say the Treasurer did get one thing right, which is that I am an extremist for small and family businesses and the self-employed.