Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

During question time, the Prime Minister responded to my question about the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage denigrating Australians concerned with global warming as latte drinkers. The Prime Minister claimed that the Newspoll I cited was an online poll and sought to minimise its credibility. In fact, the Newspoll I cited, a climate change study, was conducted nationally amongst 1,200 respondents by fully trained and personally briefed interviewers and was postweighted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics by data on age, highest level of schooling, sex and area. I seek leave to table the Newspoll.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave granted.