Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

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

Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to have been misrepresented?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do.

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

The Leader of the Opposition may proceed.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yesterday, and again today, the junior Minister for Resources and Water purported to say that I visited Moranbah without telling anyone. On Sunday 11 July at 9.04 am, I issued a media alert for an event in Moranbah with the ACTU president, Michele O'Neill, that was taking place at the Moranbah Workers Club with coalminers and the heads of all the mining lodges. And, on 12 July at 7 am, we issued a media alert for a press conference jointly with Murray Watt for 10.30 am that morning in Moranbah. A journalist did attend—the one journalist who travelled. I also did media at the only radio station in Moranbah and we published both the transcript of the media conference and the transcript of the radio interview.