Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I wish to make a personal explanation.

Trent Zimmerman (North Sydney, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes; twice during the MPI on two matters.

Trent Zimmerman (North Sydney, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Goldstein said that I and our party wanted to introduce a wealth tax, including on the family home. That is not true. The Greens policy is for a tax on billionaires' wealth. It is only billionaires who would have a tax imposed on their wealth. He knows that. It's available on our website. If he wants to have a debate about that, that's fine, but don't make up things that we don't stand for.

On the second matter during the debate on the matter of public importance, both the member for Goldstein and the member for Riverina said that it was the Greens policy to have a 50 per cent cut in defence spending and to cut defence spending to one per cent of GDP. That is not true. The Greens policy is to set defence spending at 1.5 per cent of GDP. That is an amount that I note is higher than countries like Germany and Canada. That is available on our website: greens.org.au/platform/world.

I note in this respect this is the second time that I have risen to make a personal explanation about this matter, and I'm putting on notice the members of the government that I reserve my right to treat further repeats of this statement as a deliberate misleading of the House.