Milton Dick Speaker
3:09 pm
The Manager of Opposition Business is seeking the call for a personal explanation not restricted to matters of misrepresentation.
Dan Tehan Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
3:10 pm
Speaker, I want to correct a misunderstanding, per page 498 of the Practice. Today on the front page of the Australian is a report titled 'Chris Bowen commits PM to COP summit amid third-term ambitions'. In this media report, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy is quoted as saying: 'I'm way beyond the personal playing the man'—
Milton Dick Speaker
Hang on a sec. This applies to what you have done, not a misunderstanding for someone else. The Practice is clear:
A personal explanation is not restricted to matters of misrepresentation. For example, Members have been permitted to use the procedure to explain an action or remark, apologise to the House, clarify a possible misunderstanding, state why they had voted in a particular way, and correct a statement made in debate.
It's not applying to someone else. So you've got to explain where you have been misrepresented, or where the mistake is that you've made.
Dan Tehan Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
Yes. So—
Dan Tehan Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
No.
Dan Tehan Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction
Speaker, the misunderstanding that I would like to correct is that I am obsessed with the minister delivering $275 off people's power bills—not about his personal attributes, which might include things that go to pumping up his own tyres.
Milton Dick Speaker
Order! I thank the manager for correcting his mistake, I think. Order! I'd just remind people that the standing orders are there for a reason and the Practice is there for a reason. They're not to be taken advantage of.