Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the member claim to have been misrepresented?

Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do indeed.

Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Hunter has the call.

Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Immediately after question time, the Minister for Agriculture himself sought to make a personal explanation. In doing so, he suggested that I had misled him this morning over the matter of the doctoring of his Hansard. He has also asked me to retract, which I will not be doing. The minister tabled a document which raises more questions than it answers. I still challenge the minister to provide evidence that he was not involved in the doctoring of his Hansard.

Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member should be getting to the point where he has been misrepresented.

Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to table documents that go to the minister's interference in the process of my FOI application.

Leave granted.