Kelly O'Dwyer (Higgins, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I do, Madam Speaker. Yesterday, without any notice, the member for Rankin launched a personal attack on me in the Federation Chamber. First, he accused me of slurring the Chairman of the Foreign Investment Review Board, Mr Brian Wilson. This accusation impugns my reputation by insinuating that I made false statements in relation to Mr Wilson, whom I have never named in any statement that I have made and implies that I have no foundation on which to make the statement that I did make—that there has been a failure of leadership at FIRB.

I refer the House to the recently tabled report of the House Standing Committee on Economics, entitled Report on foreign investment in residential real estate. Specifically, I remind the member for Rankin and the House of the following paragraphs in this unanimous report—paragraphs 2.74—

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