Hansard
Thursday, 12th August 2021
Personal Explanations
Misrepresentation
Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Leader of the Opposition) (15:18): Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
The SPEAKER: Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to have been misrepresented?
Mr ALBANESE: I do indeed.
The SPEAKER: He may proceed.
Mr ALBANESE: Today in question time the Prime Minister said, 'Mr Speaker, Labor, even most recently, have been seeking to tear down JobKeeper.' That is not true. Labor supported JobKeeper wage subsidies, along with the business community and the trade union movement, when the government was still saying it was a dangerous idea. We called for the return of JobKeeper, along with the New South Wales Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, something that led to the Prime Minister losing it and, according to Nikki Savva, 'hurling the F-bomb at Perrottet'.
The SPEAKER: No, no! The Leader of the Opposition is now going well beyond pointing out where he was misrepresented.
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