Luke Simpkins (Cowan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member for Cowan claim to have been misrepresented?

Luke Simpkins (Cowan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I certainly do. The Prime Minister in question time said I had voted for more boats. That is not true. The government did not have the courage to bring the Malaysian solution to a vote.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Cowan will resume his seat.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member for Sturt claim to have been misrepresented?

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do—yet again by the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, who continues to make the statement that I want to dismiss one in seven teachers that work in schools. I point out to the House yet again—it must be the 20th time—that of course the federal government does not run any schools and does not employ any teachers, so the federal minister for education cannot dismiss any teachers, which makes the statement false.