Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) 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?

Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Most severely.

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

Please proceed.

Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Resources and Energy has just implied that I was opposed to the development of LNG facilities in Australia. My still unanswered question to the Acting Prime Minister at the last sitting raised environmental and Commonwealth revenue implications regarding Inpex’s decision to build an additional undersea 800-kilometre pipeline to Darwin because the defeated WA government refused access to the closest land to the—

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

Order! The member for O’Connor will resume his seat. He is commencing to debate the question.

Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am saying what it was, Mr Speaker.

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

Order! I appreciate, Member for O’Connor, that this is the first sitting day of ‘Rocktober’, but we are not going to shake, rattle and roll with you! I am looking for a very tempered month from you and not a rocky relationship—a very big call.