Personal Explanation

MEMBER'S REMARKS

The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON (Croydon—Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (11:41): I claim to have been misrepresented and seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: In another place yesterday the Hon. R.D. Lawson said in reference to my reply to a question on notice in the house on Tuesday:

The Attorney used the occasion to make gratuitously offensive remarks about Channel 7 and the producer of the Today Tonight program, Graham Archer.

I have read the entire Hansard report from question time on Tuesday and there is no reference in it to Graham Archer or the Executive Producer of the Today Tonight program. The Today Tonight reporter who broke the Terry Norman Stephens stories was Rohan Wenn, and I made no criticism of him, either. Indeed, I quoted his remarks about the member for Schubert at length.

I ask the Hon. R.D. Lawson to correct the record in the other place and to apologise for deliberately misleading it.