Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do indeed.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The last edition of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny Of Bills Alert Digest dealt with my private member’s bill, Protection of the Australian National Flag (Desecration of the Flag) Bill 2006. In that digest, it said that at the time I failed to lodge an explanatory memorandum. I would point out that when I introduced the bill to the House and spoke to it I tabled an explanatory memorandum, which was part of the last sentence of my speech. I have written to the committee and asked it to record an apology, but I would like this chamber to take note that in fact they just plain got it wrong.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member will resume her seat. She has explained where she was misrepresented.

Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations misrepresented me in question time today in precisely the same manner as yesterday, and my response is precisely the same today as it was yesterday.