Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

Yes. We just want to make sure it's finished. It's been really disappointing from the blue side here when they were in government. Whatever little deal was done between the Governor-General and the Prime Minister of the day is absolutely disgraceful. There is no information on it. We have no idea where this money was being spent. It was like a little boys' club gone wrong. It was disgraceful—like $18 million is $18 worth of mixed lollies. Fair dinkum! This has been absolutely disgraceful in the way it was done.

We don't just hand out money without any details because they're the Governor-General. I still for the life of me have not heard much out of the Governor-General explaining what this—what do they call it?—future leaders blah blah blah program was all about. It's without any detail, and yet the Governor-General is still sitting there in his position, happy to take 18 million bucks, to not be transparent with the public out there and to tell them exactly how great this program was going to be, because for $18 million he was going to get a great program. There was no doubt about that, apparently.

We haven't heard boo. I have to say that's been quite shameful. That in itself shows it's probably time the Governor-General went and had a look at his position in front of the public eye. Once again: if you have full detail, mate, of what this program looked like, then you come out and tell us what it looked like. I haven't heard a peep out of you.

You realise now that you're not in the military. You're the Governor-General and you're in the face of the public of Australia. If you can't come out with good reasoning on that 18 million bucks and where it was going, and the little deals that were done on the sidelines, maybe you don't deserve to be in that position in the first place. You're not in the military, mate. There's no more cover-up here. It's a whole different ballgame being the Governor-General.

Quite frankly, you need to come out and be honest with the Australian people on what was going on. Like millions of others out there, I will not be satisfied until this is done. I'd love to know who the future leaders were going to be. Who are the future leaders you were going to pick in your own little sphere and put on another planet? Was it a miniature Australian Defence Force Academy or something? What did it look like? What was the substance to it?