House debates
Monday, 14 February 2022
Statements
Personal Explanation
3:25 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
Andrew Wallace (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, by the minister for immigration during question time.
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The minister for immigration made a number of imputations in his response. The facts are these: his imputations are wrong, as demonstrated by the fact that the courts upheld his right as a minister to cancel a visa in the globally covered case around Novak Djokovic. He knows it. The whole of the parliament knows it, and he is being deliberately—deliberately—misleading in his characterisation he gave in his answer.