Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member claim to have been misrepresented?

Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I absolutely claim to have been misrepresented.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member has the call to show where she has been misrepresented.

Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Education has now on several occasions, including today in question time, implied that because I support explicit instruction of literacy I support the government's decision to abandon needs based education funding. I absolutely do not support that abandonment of that—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member is involving herself in argument, which is not permissible. She must show precisely from the record where she has been misrepresented, not in the intention or her understanding of but precisely where it has occurred. If unable to do that at the present time she should wait until perhaps she sees the Hansard and then make her point.

Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I will as soon as the Hansard is available. But just to confirm that I do not support the ripping of education funding—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No. That is enough, thank you. The member will resume her seat.