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Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Page: 4519


Mr RANDALL (3:31 PM) —Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.


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


Mr RANDALL —I do, on two occasions.


The SPEAKER —Please proceed.


Mr RANDALL —Today the Prime Minister in question time claimed that I do not support education funding for the schools in my electorate of Canning. This is as gross misrepresentation. I support whatever taxpayer funds or funds borrowed on behalf of taxpayers are going into my electorate. What I do not support is the cash splash, and that needs to be differentiated.


The SPEAKER —The honourable member will now go to the next matter.


Mr RANDALL —On the second matter, in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, in the article ‘Hard hat and head for figures’, Annabel Crabb said:

The Liberal MP Don Randall stole out of the chamber and returned with a bright yellow hard hat, which he wasn’t quite brave enough to put on his head.

Mr Speaker, I did not steal out anywhere. It was the member for La Trobe—this man sitting here. Secondly, no-one in this House would question my courage to do whatever in the chamber, given the fact that I outed the Prime Minister with that cut-out.


The SPEAKER —The member for Canning will resume his seat. While I do not adjudicate on personal explanations, I am not sure whether it was the member for Canning or the member for La Trobe who was at greater distress over that article.