Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The statement that I'm asking to have withdrawn is the claim in the previous question from the Leader of the Opposition that the Minister for Indigenous Australians had said that the parliament can override the provisions of the Constitution. I have gone through the live minutes. That was not said. To completely misrepresent in this House a member immediately in that way, when you know it is not true, you know you've said something that's—

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