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

That's correct. I think for us it is about just having this cleaned up and finished off properly and making sure that there is a statement very loud and clear that I don't give a stuff if you're the Governor-General. And I mean that with due respect, but you're under the same public eye as the rest of us are up here. Welcome to the real world. The military will no longer be there to cover your bottom. It doesn't work like that.

Firstly, I ask you to go and think about your position and whether it's tenable, because I don't think it is and neither do millions of others out there, apparently, who are not that happy with you. I do ask the Governor-General, before I finish up, to go and have a good look at yourself, because it's absolutely unacceptable behaviour. There's nothing more you can say about that. Maybe it's time for you to leave.

Other than that, I would have thought that if the Future Leaders Program was going to be such an asset and the leaders were going to be so great, you'd have been out there prancing around like a butterfly about it, but we haven't heard a peep. I won't say anything else. I think we all know where we stand on that. We'd like to finish off and make sure it is done correctly. We want to make sure that this has been an example, and that we are not going to tolerate that sort of waste, let alone without any substance to where the $18 million, or millions of dollars, was going to go, into the future, that this is just not on.

I don't particularly want to be part of a Senate that just thinks 18 million bucks can be flagged around, as I said, like $18 worth of mixed lollies. It mightn't seem a lot of money when we're dealing with billions up here, but it is an absolute waste that had no substance to it whatsoever. I think that's more destroying than someone asking for some money, yet on the same note there's no instruction, there's no: what does it look like? There's absolutely nothing. I think that is shameful.