Mr ANDREN (3:20 PM) —Mr Speaker, on checking the ParlInfo web site, I find I have been deemed absent from the House on about a dozen occasions in the past few years, including yesterday, when I was indeed present in this building attending committee meetings and hearings, addressing the Main Committee and being recorded in Hansard, and attending to constituent matters, yet choosing not to attend question time or simply not having any business in this chamber. Mr Speaker, can you investigate this apparent anomaly so the record of attendance is a true reflection of my or any other member's attention to various duties in this place which may or may not involve an actual presence in this chamber?

The SPEAKER —I will follow up the matter raised by the member for Calare and ensure that he has available to him a record that indicates those occasions when he has, for example, been in the Main Committee and has therefore been recorded as being present. But I point out to him and to all members that this building is not an office block; members are here as representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia and, therefore, are obliged to attend the chamber. I have no intention of changing the arrangements which oblige members to be in the chamber at some time during the day.