❓ Minister Ravlich addresses a parliamentary question regarding a miscaptioned photograph in The West Australian, accusing the newspaper of misrepresenting her actions and agenda related to education policy.
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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING - PRESS PHOTOGRAPH
Will the minister advise whether the photograph of her on page 10 of this morning’s The West Australian shows her leaving the chamber to avoid debate, as the caption alleges? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
Will the minister advise whether the photograph of her on page 10 of this morning’s The West Australian shows her leaving the chamber to avoid debate, as the caption alleges? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
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I thank the member for the question. I had a very interesting day yesterday because I did what I usually do when I come to work, which is to arrive about half an hour before Parliament sits. However, I had to come a little earlier because I had a media engagement. I was met at the south entrance by Bethany Hiatt, Simon Penn and photographer Rod Taylor. The photographer started to take photographs, as is usually the case. I was walking into the building with my bag over my shoulder, a file under my arm and my car keys in my hand. The photograph I hold up was published in The West Australian this morning with the caption, “Education Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich left the chamber during an attack on her insistence that 90 per cent of parents and teachers back OBE”. That was not a photograph of my leaving the chamber; it was my coming to work yesterday afternoon. Once again, The West Australian has got it wrong. I have been the subject of a wanted poster, without a reward being offered. How dumb can they be? There was a found poster the next day. I missed one day of a media engagement. I have been Minister for Education and Training for 16 months, but that one missed day resulted in the only state newspaper in WA printing a wanted poster without a reward one day and a found poster the next. Today was a very happy day for me. I am pleased that I have found myself. Some of this nonsense really needs to stop. If The West Australian wants to report, I do not have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with it misrepresenting the truth, and falsifying the course of events and what people say. Western Australians deserve better. It needs an editor who will look after the interests of the Western Australian community, not one who is preoccupied with his own personal agenda at the expense of everything else.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for the question. I had a very interesting day yesterday because I did what I usually do when I come to work, which is to arrive about half an hour before Parliament sits. However, I had to come a little earlier because I had a media engagement. I was met at the south entrance by Bethany Hiatt, Simon Penn and photographer Rod Taylor. The photographer started to take photographs, as is usually the case. I was walking into the building with my bag over my shoulder, a file under my arm and my car keys in my hand. The photograph I hold up was published in The West Australian this morning with the caption, “Education Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich left the chamber during an attack on her insistence that 90 per cent of parents and teachers back OBE”. That was not a photograph of my leaving the chamber; it was my coming to work yesterday afternoon. Once again, The West Australian has got it wrong. I have been the subject of a wanted poster, without a reward being offered. How dumb can they be? There was a found poster the next day. I missed one day of a media engagement. I have been Minister for Education and Training for 16 months, but that one missed day resulted in the only state newspaper in WA printing a wanted poster without a reward one day and a found poster the next. Today was a very happy day for me. I am pleased that I have found myself. Some of this nonsense really needs to stop. If The West Australian wants to report, I do not have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with it misrepresenting the truth, and falsifying the course of events and what people say. Western Australians deserve better. It needs an editor who will look after the interests of the Western Australian community, not one who is preoccupied with his own personal agenda at the expense of everything else.
I thank the member for the question. I had a very interesting day yesterday because I did what I usually do when I come to work, which is to arrive about half an hour before Parliament sits. However, I had to come a little earlier because I had a media engagement. I was met at the south entrance by Bethany Hiatt, Simon Penn and photographer Rod Taylor. The photographer started to take photographs, as is usually the case. I was walking into the building with my bag over my shoulder, a file under my arm and my car keys in my hand. The photograph I hold up was published in The West Australian this morning with the caption, “Education Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich left the chamber during an attack on her insistence that 90 per cent of parents and teachers back OBE”. That was not a photograph of my leaving the chamber; it was my coming to work yesterday afternoon. Once again, The West Australian has got it wrong. I have been the subject of a wanted poster, without a reward being offered. How dumb can they be? There was a found poster the next day. I missed one day of a media engagement. I have been Minister for Education and Training for 16 months, but that one missed day resulted in the only state newspaper in WA printing a wanted poster without a reward one day and a found poster the next. Today was a very happy day for me. I am pleased that I have found myself. Some of this nonsense really needs to stop. If The West Australian wants to report, I do not have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with it misrepresenting the truth, and falsifying the course of events and what people say. Western Australians deserve better. It needs an editor who will look after the interests of the Western Australian community, not one who is preoccupied with his own personal agenda at the expense of everything else.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for the question. I had a very interesting day yesterday because I did what I usually do when I come to work, which is to arrive about half an hour before Parliament sits. However, I had to come a little earlier because I had a media engagement. I was met at the south entrance by Bethany Hiatt, Simon Penn and photographer Rod Taylor. The photographer started to take photographs, as is usually the case. I was walking into the building with my bag over my shoulder, a file under my arm and my car keys in my hand. The photograph I hold up was published in The West Australian this morning with the caption, “Education Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich left the chamber during an attack on her insistence that 90 per cent of parents and teachers back OBE”. That was not a photograph of my leaving the chamber; it was my coming to work yesterday afternoon. Once again, The West Australian has got it wrong. I have been the subject of a wanted poster, without a reward being offered. How dumb can they be? There was a found poster the next day. I missed one day of a media engagement. I have been Minister for Education and Training for 16 months, but that one missed day resulted in the only state newspaper in WA printing a wanted poster without a reward one day and a found poster the next. Today was a very happy day for me. I am pleased that I have found myself. Some of this nonsense really needs to stop. If The West Australian wants to report, I do not have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with it misrepresenting the truth, and falsifying the course of events and what people say. Western Australians deserve better. It needs an editor who will look after the interests of the Western Australian community, not one who is preoccupied with his own personal agenda at the expense of everything else.
I thank the member for the question. I had a very interesting day yesterday because I did what I usually do when I come to work, which is to arrive about half an hour before Parliament sits. However, I had to come a little earlier because I had a media engagement. I was met at the south entrance by Bethany Hiatt, Simon Penn and photographer Rod Taylor. The photographer started to take photographs, as is usually the case. I was walking into the building with my bag over my shoulder, a file under my arm and my car keys in my hand. The photograph I hold up was published in The West Australian this morning with the caption, “Education Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich left the chamber during an attack on her insistence that 90 per cent of parents and teachers back OBE”. That was not a photograph of my leaving the chamber; it was my coming to work yesterday afternoon. Once again, The West Australian has got it wrong. I have been the subject of a wanted poster, without a reward being offered. How dumb can they be? There was a found poster the next day. I missed one day of a media engagement. I have been Minister for Education and Training for 16 months, but that one missed day resulted in the only state newspaper in WA printing a wanted poster without a reward one day and a found poster the next. Today was a very happy day for me. I am pleased that I have found myself. Some of this nonsense really needs to stop. If The West Australian wants to report, I do not have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with it misrepresenting the truth, and falsifying the course of events and what people say. Western Australians deserve better. It needs an editor who will look after the interests of the Western Australian community, not one who is preoccupied with his own personal agenda at the expense of everything else.
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