John Murphy (Lowe, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Doubtless you will recall giving me the call just prior to question time yesterday during members’ statements. I made a statement about Sydney airport and the implications for my electorate in relation to aircraft noise. I checked the Hansard today, and mercifully I was faithfully recorded, but I was also recorded as having given a glowing endorsement a minute earlier to the Howard government and to the Prime Minister in relation to the government’s support for the arts in Geelong. Specifically I was recorded as saying, ‘This evening I will be pleased to represent the Prime Minister and the minister for the arts at the official unveiling.’ I have an acute sense of political survival and this would be most unsettling for my constituents in Lowe.

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