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

Yes, I do.

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

Yesterday the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy said in question time that in a speech I gave in 1999 I used words from a United Nations report without attribution. In fact, in my speech I made specific reference to the United Nations report when I said:

These examples were among a number in a 1999 Human Development Report I read recently—in a chapter on “New Technologies and the Global Race for Knowledge”.