House debates
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Personal Explanations
3:15 pm
Alby Schultz (Hume, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
On Sunday, 19 May 2013, two reporters, Steve Lewis and Lanai Scarr, had an article in the Herald Sun headed 'On the road again'. I quote from the article the issue that I need to raise in this House today:
And while Tony Abbott has asked his colleagues to pare back foreign trips, a host of retiring Coalition members of parliament—including Patrick Secker, Paul Neville, Mal Washer and Alby Schultz—have been dusting off their passports for visits to Indonesia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Zambia and Ecuador.
I just want to put on the public record that, over my 25 years in state and federal politics, I have heard some pretty classic examples of the bottom end of journalism but the two authors of that particular article have reached the tail end.
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