Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I wish to make a personal explanation.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

During question time today I was misrepresented by the shadow small minister for business.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Come on, member for Oxley. It is the shadow minister for small business.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

He misquoted me.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Oxley, I think you might look at the phrasing of your description of the small minister.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That was what I was hoping for from the shadow minister. He said that in a speech that I made I said that small businesses do not pay the carbon price.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have asked the parliamentary secretary to correct, for the record, the description of who he said he was misrepresented by.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

By the shadow minister.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

For?

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

For small business.

Opposition members interjecting—

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the parliamentary secretary.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Almost as big as the shadow minister.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Oxley, you have the call to show where you have been misrepresented.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I quoted that small business do not pay the carbon price. In fact, what I said was that small businesses do not pay the carbon price. It is a price paid by Australia's biggest polluters.