Senate debates
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Motions
Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force
1:00 pm
Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source
No more hiding—that's what we want. We want no more hiding from the Department of Defence, as Senator Lambie has just said. The hiding is killing enlisted people and killing veterans. We've got to stop the hiding. I support Senator Lambie. One Nation supports Senator Lambie's motion. I don't need to say much more, because yesterday I spoke at length about the partial release of documents that we have been chasing for years now about the Taipan helicopter. Had we gotten those documents and had Defence analysed them, it could well have saved four lives that were tragically lost in the Whitsundays. We asked for the release of documents. After years, we got a redacted executive summary of a report. There were no correspondence, inquiries or other documents—
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