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

I just want to go back into the public confidence, if I might. Quite frankly, I've got this problem from the military people with the commissioner that you have picked. We've heard about the veterans royal commission for three years. We've heard about the cover-up stories that have been going on in Defence, let alone what's going on at the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force. By the way, this was an assistant inspector-general of the Australian Defence Force. You want the military to have confidence in having him there in the first place when you're not running public hearings? One of the reasons that we ended up at that royal commission for veterans was because of the cover-up that has been going on for years in the Defence Force. You tell me how military members are supposed to have confidence while this is all going on behind closed doors because they don't have the right to come out in public. This is how they've been treated for the last 20 years in the military. How do you expect the Australian people to have confidence in a system that failed veterans when it's a man that's been in and out of that uniform and part of the Defence Force for years? You explain that public confidence to me.