Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Wong has done the Australian community a great favour. Just in case the Australian community was labouring under the misapprehension that this was an infallible government, she has pointed out the fact that a typographical error occurred on a media release, which I understand has since been corrected.

Do errors occur from time to time? Yes, they do. One of the distinctions between the Australian Labor Party, and the left wing of Australian politics, and the coalition side of politics is simply this: we accept that there is such a thing as human frailty, that we are not perfect and that, when errors occur, we are willing to acknowledge them, apologise for them and correct them, which is exactly what happened in relation to this administrative error.