Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, Madam Speaker—twice, by the Prime Minister in question time, knowingly, I suspect.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister said that I was a midwife and the assistant to the GP co-payment back in the 1990s. This is false. The Prime Minister knows that it is false. I was not the midwife nor the assistant to the co-payment. I opposed the co-payment in the 1990s, and I oppose it now.

Andrew Leigh (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Andrew Leigh (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, Madam Speaker, I do, most grievously.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Andrew Leigh (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On three occasions during question time, the Prime Minister suggested that I support the government's GP tax. This is false. The Prime Minister should worry more about what he promised last year while he was campaigning for election than what I wrote when I was in university.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I might say that when you have a personal explanation, it is not an opportunity to entertain debate.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

He is very embarrassed, Madam Speaker!