STATEMENTS

Mr TIM WILSON (Goldstein) (15:13): I wish to make a personal explanation. The SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented? Mr TIM WILSON: I do.

The SPEAKER: You may proceed. Mr TIM WILSON: During question time today, only a few moments ago, the member for Rankin made a series of misrepresentations of my positions on matters. Firstly, he claimed that I 'want to privatise Medicare'.

That is not the case. I believe in sustainable Medicare. He claimed that I want to 'dismantle superannuation'.

That is not true. I simply want to stop the corruption and make sure that homeownership takes precedence. He claimed that I had referred to work-from-home as apartheid.

This is a very close verballing of what I said. The Allan government of Victoria has created a work-from-home program, which they have described as a right, which will not extend to everybody. So it is they who are engaging in that practice.

I am criticising them for engaging in that practice. I will say the Treasurer did get one thing right, which is that I am an extremist for small and family businesses and the self-employed.