Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, standing order 68 goes to a circumstance where somebody has made a misrepresentation about a member of the House and that is cleared up after question time by way of submission from the member claiming to have been offended against and there is then a repeat of that misrepresentation—for example, that they were at an event when they weren't at that event, or that they said 'blue' when it was actually 'red'. It's not that, Mr Speaker. The quote that the Prime Minister is making in question time is a direct quote from the Leader of the Opposition. It is quoted in the Australian newspaper. It may be inconvenient to the Leader of the Opposition to hear those questions, because it goes to his weakness on China, but the standing order is very clear: it's in relation to a misrepresentation, and it does not apply in these circumstances.

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