Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

the falsehood being that holding a fundraiser in the Speaker's dining room was unprecedented and improper. The member for Melbourne Ports interjects, out of his seat, 'According to you.' No, it is not, Member for Melbourne Ports, according to me. In fact, it was the former member for Watson who, in the year 2000, admitted that he had held at least one fundraiser in the Speaker's dining room. So it is not me saying that it is a falsehood. The fact is that the former member for Watson made it perfectly clear that neither is it unprecedented or improper for fundraisers to be held in the Speaker's dining room.

On that basis, the current member for Watson should apologise to you, Madam Speaker, in the House—because he made a false claim based on a falsehood, the falsehood being that fundraisers in the Speaker's dining room are unprecedented and improper. They are neither improper nor unprecedented.

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