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Title

PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS

Database

House Hansard

Date

17-08-2005

Source

House of Reps

Parl No.

41

Electorate

Hunter

Interjector

SPEAKER, The

Main Committee/Federation Chamber

 

Page

87

Party

ALP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

 

Questioner

 

Responder

 

Speaker

Fitzgibbon, Joel, MP

Stage

 

Type

 

Context

PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS

System Id

chamber/hansardr/2005-08-17/0091


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Wednesday, 17 August 2005
Page: 87


Mr FITZGIBBON (3:15 PM) —Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.


The SPEAKER —Does the member claim to have been misrepresented?


Mr FITZGIBBON —On two occasions.


The SPEAKER —Please proceed.


Mr FITZGIBBON —On both occasions by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Yesterday in the Australian I said this:

Labor has long acknowledged the issue of go-away money and has for some time been advocating procedural changes to rid the economy of the problem ...

Unfortunately, the Government wants to take the lazy and unfair option of totally denying those with a genuine grievance any protection at all.


The SPEAKER —The member will get to where he has been misrepresented.


Mr FITZGIBBON —‘This option is likely to be worse for small business operators’—


The SPEAKER —No, the member will get to where he has been misrepresented.


Mr FITZGIBBON —‘because many of the vexatious claimants will take the ‘unlawful dismissal’ path, which will prove more complex and expensive for small firms.’ By selectively and mischievously quoting from a single part of the article, the minister misrepresented me.

On the other occasion, in answer to the same dorothy dixer from the other side, the minister purported to deliver a quote from me—words I supposedly said five years ago on a small business show that does not exist any more. The interesting thing about this is that every time a minister in this place—


The SPEAKER —The member will come to where he has been misrepresented.


Mr FITZGIBBON —shares this quote with the House it seems to change. The minister should be forced to authenticate the complete quote or apologise to me and the House.