Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The last edition of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny Of Bills Alert Digest dealt with my private member’s bill, Protection of the Australian National Flag (Desecration of the Flag) Bill 2006. In that digest, it said that at the time I failed to lodge an explanatory memorandum. I would point out that when I introduced the bill to the House and spoke to it I tabled an explanatory memorandum, which was part of the last sentence of my speech. I have written to the committee and asked it to record an apology, but I would like this chamber to take note that in fact they just plain got it wrong.

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