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Title

PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS

Database

House Hansard

Date

18-09-2001

Source

House of Reps

Parl No.

39

Electorate

Lowe

Interjector

SPEAKER, Mr

Main Committee/Federation Chamber

 

Page

30852

Party

ALP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

 

Questioner

 

Responder

 

Speaker

Murphy, John, MP

Stage

 

Type

 

Context

Personal Explanations

System Id

chamber/hansardr/2001-09-18/0041


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Tuesday, 18 September 2001
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Mr MURPHY (3:53 PM) —Mr Speaker, I would like to again thank you for your efforts under standing order 150. Since I last raised matters under standing order 150, I have received another 22 replies to questions, which I appreciate. I also seek leave to make a personal explanation.


Mr SPEAKER —Does the member for Lowe claim to have been misrepresented?


Mr MURPHY —I most certainly do.


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe may proceed.


Mr MURPHY —Mr Speaker, you will doubtlessly recall that, during the adjournment debate on Monday, 20 August in this House, I spoke about the sale of Sydney airport. Following that speech, on 28 August, on page 2 of the Penrith Press, the member for Lindsay ran an advertisement that said, inter alia:

In federal parliament last Monday night, Sydney Labor MP John Murphy attacked the Howard government for our refusal to build an airport at Badgerys Creek. Murphy is one of a swag of powerful and influential Labor MPs—


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe must come to the point about which he has been misrepresented.


Mr MURPHY —I am happy to respond to that, Mr Speaker, because I am a humble backbencher.


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe will come to the point of misrepresentation.


Mr MURPHY —It continued:

who has convinced the ALP party machine that the solution to noisy life in the big city is to dump some of that noise in the Penrith district. Labor now wants to use federal parliament to block the sale of—


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe must indicate simply where he has been misrepresented and place it on the record.


Mr MURPHY —The member for Lindsay said:

Labor now wants to use federal parliament to block the sale—


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe cannot indicate where the Labor Party has been misrepresented but where he has been misrepresented.


Mr MURPHY —This flows from my speech. She is extending that to say—because of my influence—that:

Labor now wants to use federal parliament to block the sale of Kingsford Smith Airport until the government commits to noise relief in the form of a second airport in the Sydney basin.

The member for Lindsay speaks half-truths. When I spoke on 20 August in this House—


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe cannot advance an argument. He has indicated where he has been misrepresented.


Mr MURPHY —I am being misrepresented by half-truths. I spoke of two elements in that debate: the failure of—


Mr SPEAKER —The member for Lowe will resume his seat. He has indicated where he has been misrepresented.