Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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?

Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Definitely.

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

Please proceed.

Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In the electronic version of the Australian today, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, wrote that, last week, it was Teresa Gambaro in Brisbane and, this week, Rowan Ramsey in WA and Steve Irons in South Australia asking why towns in their electorates are receiving state-of-the-art, next-generation satellite broadband services rather than fibre optic cable to their home or are not getting fibre rolled out quickly enough. Firstly, I am from Western Australia, not South Australia. Secondly, the minister should not mistake scrutiny of government election promises as a wastage of taxpayers' money or a support of government waste. Thirdly, the question I asked was on behalf of a constituent and was to expose another Labor election lie.