Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Do you claim to have been misrepresented?

Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Most grievously.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You may proceed.

Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This morning in the Sydney Morning Herald there is an editorial by Bevan Shields, which says the following:

TV and gambling executives met with Communications Minister Michelle Rowland in August …

That is false.

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Do you claim to have been misrepresented?

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You may proceed.

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In question time today I asked the Prime Minister about the more than 25,000 businesses in Australia that have gone insolvent since he became Prime Minister, with 1,364 going bust in the last month alone. In response the Prime Minister said, 'The facts are just wrong that the deputy leader has put forward.' The data I was quoting from is ASIC data. It is not my word or the Prime Minister's word; it is not Labor's word or the Liberals' word. It is ASIC data. It is not wrong; it is correct. The Prime Minister should now update the House at the first available opportunity to correct the mistake, as standing orders prescribe. To help the Prime Minister, I seek leave to table the ASIC data, which spells out the numbers for every quarter on record.

Leave not granted.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's available on the internet if it is what she says.