Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

My attention has only today been drawn to an article in AAP on 16 March 2013, 'New South Wales coal train pollution not too bad: Albanese,' which was apparently also picked up in the Newcastle Herald. This refers to an issue regarding a contact by AAP seeking a comment from me in response to a statement by Senator Lee Rhiannon. I make it a policy not to respond to all of Lee Rhiannon's obsessive comments about me because I have a real job to do. With regard to this, I did not make a statement—any such statement. My spokesperson made no statement whatsoever to AAP.

AAP have reported a report that was forwarded to AAP from the ARTC, the Australian Rail Track Corporation, a particulate report, that they published last year—that is, ARTC, an independent corporate entity, separate from the government, a report separate from the government, no comments from me and no comments from my spokesperson. This is an error made by AAP and I correct the record. I made no such statement, nor did my spokesperson. The quotes that are attributed to me in the article are in fact from the ARTC report, not from me.

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