Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I wish to make a personal explanation.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the Manager of Opposition Business claim to have been misrepresented?

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes—one of the worst I've had.

Honourable members interjecting—

Yes, that bad.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You may proceed.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

During the MPI, the member for Petrie said that the Liberals had established the world's largest network of marine parks. Given that I established them, this means the member for Petrie has called me a Liberal. It's an extraordinary claim to make. It was under the Gillard government that we established the world's largest network of marine parks, and it was under the Liberals that they cut them in half.