Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Not exactly. What I wish to do, on indulgence, is correct the record.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you. On Tuesday in question time, I asked a question of the Prime Minister based on an assumption about the date of release of a statement by the member for Robertson which I now know was dated 8 June. Despite my best efforts to locate that statement or a reference to it before 10 June, I was not able to do so. The press gallery—and I thank them for this—has also not been able to locate a copy they would have received on 8 June. There is a reference to it in a newspaper article of 9 June. I apologise for making that assumption. However, the point of my question to the Prime Minister remains—that is, what advice his office gave to the member for Robertson before her statement. That question remains unanswered.