David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

if we're lucky. I note the interjection from Senator Scarr. We'll begin that process and my children will inherit it. That will be nice. It can be part of their ongoing inheritance to the transparency in this nation. If you wanted to have a compelling reason why the order to produce documents should be complied with, it's because other avenues of transparency are being shut down by a self-interested culture of secrecy and defence.

I don't agree with everything Senator Roberts put in that contribution. I can't see the Australian Defence Force waking up and realising it's 2023 and we have a diverse multicultural and genuinely representative Defence Force of our society. Of course, it should be representative of modern Australia and it's not as representative as it should be. It's not a question of wokeness that's affecting the Defence Force; it's a question of serious culture problems from the top and that's what we need to address, and we need to address this cult of secrecy that is actually putting Defence Force personnel lives at risk.

Question agreed to.