House debates

Monday, 14 February 2022

Statements

Personal Explanation

3:25 pm

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

I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Photo of Andrew WallaceAndrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

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

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

I do, by the minister for immigration during question time.

Photo of Andrew WallaceAndrew Wallace (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share 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.