David Hawker (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Patrick Secker (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

David Hawker (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Most definitely.

Patrick Secker (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

David Hawker (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today in the Border Watch, a newspaper that I am sure you are extremely well aware of, Mr Deputy Speaker, there is an article headed ‘Green budget, but country in the red’. That article reports part of a press release that I issued last night but leaves out some critical words. The article reads:

“Health and aged care in rural and regional areas need urgent attention and this budget does address that need,” Mr Hawker said.

In fact, in my press release I said:

Health and aged care in rural and regional areas need urgent attention and this budget does nothing to address that need.

I have to admit that my office issued a press release and within 60 seconds realised that those critical words ‘nothing to’ had been left out and so reissued the press release and recalled the first one. Unfortunately, it seems that the newspaper did not pick up that correction, so I would like to correct the record now.