Matt Keogh
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Oct 16, 2026
Danny HoylandHOST
Mm-hmm.
Julia DellaforceGUEST
Um, and we have successfully, under the Ban the NDA campaign, um, advocated through, uh, Minister Matt Keogh and Minister Richard Marles to remove those NDAs, um, from this MSV inquiry.
Julia DellaforceGUEST
So any female veteran who would like to participate in these, um, MSV inquiry, or male veteran, who has an NDA can now come out and know that they can participate in this inquiry without feeling like there, there's going to be some kind of legal retaliation from Defense Force by participating.
Danny HoylandHOST
Now, Julia, just we're short of time, but I really wanna ask you, um, how are we gonna change the culture? What have you got, suggestions?
Pat ConroyGUEST
It was obviously a key finding into the Royal Commission into veteran suicide.
Pat ConroyGUEST
And Minister Keogh is launching a women's veteran strategy today that obviously deals with other issues associated with women's service.
Pat ConroyGUEST
So this is a cultural challenge that the ADF leadership and the political leadership is up for and will continue to make sure that cultural change is occurring.
Sally SaraHOST
What's your message to young Australian women and their families if these women are considering joining the ADF when this cultural challenge remains and we see incidents happening again and again?
Pat ConroyGUEST
I've got a lot of respect for Senator Lambie and her passionate commitment to this cause.
Pat ConroyGUEST
Her private legislation, private members' legislation, has a number of unintended consequences that might mean it's not the right pathway.
Pat ConroyGUEST
What do you mean? Well, details of how that would run is something that Minister Keogh is dealing with.
Sally SaraHOST
Minister, yesterday you told the ABC that, quote, the rot has to stop after a Freedom of Information document showed defence officials behind Australia's flagship missile program, the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Group, racked up at least $15.6 million in financial and procurement blunders.
James MorrowHOST
Heston, we've only got a, a short time left, but I wanted to quickly ask you about your experiences in Canberra today.
James MorrowHOST
I believe you met with Angus Taylor and with the Veteran Affairs Minister, Matt Keogh.
James MorrowHOST
Uh, did anything come from those meetings or, uh, did you get, uh, blank stares?
Heston RussellGUEST
No, absolutely, and that's been the, the most motivating part.
Heston RussellGUEST
Over the last two days I've wi- met with the leaders of most parties, so Angus Taylor, Pauline Hanson, Matt Canavan.
Heston RussellGUEST
Today I met with Michael McCormack.
Heston RussellGUEST
I met with Matt Keogh.
Heston RussellGUEST
Tomorrow I meet with Richard Marles' teams.
Steve PriceHOST
I mean, you have to ask, how low can they actually go? Let's turn our attention to Canberra now, and you wouldn't have thought things could get much worse for Labor and the Veteran Affairs Minister.
Steve PriceHOST
You've got Veteran Affairs Minister Matt Keogh and his bungling of that portfolio, including oversight of inviting the parents of Aussie soldiers who died in the conflict to a memorial service there last weekend, marking our Afghanistan engagement.
Steve PriceHOST
Well, I'm here to tell you It can get worse.
Steve PriceHOST
Current Small Business Minister and former Minister for International Development and Multicultural Affairs, Anne Arley, is giving him a fair run for his money of the title of the most incompetent minister in government.
James WillisHOST
You've had Ann Ali, who's the Small Business Minister.
James WillisHOST
Uh, Matt Keogh, the Veterans Affairs Minister has been under enormous pressure.
James WillisHOST
Anika Wells, it's expense scandal after expense scandal.
James WillisHOST
Look, the PM is a very smart political operator.
James WillisHOST
You've had Anne Arleigh, who's the Small Business Minister.
James WillisHOST
Matt Keogh, the Veterans Affairs Minister, has been under enormous pressure.
James WillisHOST
Annika Wells, it's expense scandal after expense scandal.
James WillisHOST
Look, the PM is a very smart political operator.
James MorrowHOST
The thing goes back to Marie Watt.
James MorrowHOST
But Tanya Plibersek now joins Anne Ali, Matt Keogh, a whole host of other ministers, Annika Wells, as being dead weight on this government.
James MorrowHOST
And James Bolt, my question for you is, is this the point where Anthony Albanese's political strategy of stability, or stability as he likes to call it, comes to a head because if you don't get rid of poor performers eventually you wind up with a front bench full of poor performers
James BoltGUEST
uh i don't think there is anything more he could possibly do to tanya plebiscite he hasn't done already like i don't know what areas of siberia she's currently in in the labor ministry but i think she'll remain there for the time being but he is beset on all sides by people who aren't performing but i think he just I mean, we've seen in the speeches he's given to Labor Party caucus this week, he still reckons they're kicking with the wind, he still reckons that no-one can lay a hand on him.
Ben FordhamHOST
You will remember that in 2024...
Ben FordhamHOST
The then Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek blocked the mine.
Ben FordhamHOST
She accepted the word of a white woman called Nyeri Reynolds, who claims to be an Indigenous elder.
Ben FordhamHOST
She's not.
12 MINS LATER
Ben FordhamHOST
The Jewish community leader, Alex Rivchin, is calling for an urgent review of the grant scheme.
Ben FordhamHOST
He says it's incomprehensible.
Ben FordhamHOST
He asks, why is the government financing the work of some of these fringe outlets? And Tony Burke has been asked for an explanation, but typically the Home Affairs Minister is ducking for cover.
Ben FordhamHOST
His office has handballed the matter to the Multicultural Affairs Minister, Anne Arleigh.
Mark LevyHOST
It's now over to the courts, and unfortunately, that's where we have been let down in the past.
Mark LevyHOST
Uh, Matt Keogh, uh, the Veterans Affairs Minister, I've certainly been taking h-him to task lately.
Mark LevyHOST
He's attempted to shift the blame on the War Memorial after the parents of fallen soldier Sean McCarthy weren't invited to the commemorations to mark 25 years since Australian troops were sent to Afghanistan.
Mark LevyHOST
I actually spoke to Sean's father, David McCarthy, after the show yesterday.
1 HR 14 MINS LATER
Mark LevyHOST
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Mark LevyHOST
I just wanted to revisit something, uh, we've been speaking about over the last 24 hours.
Mark LevyHOST
Um, I said yesterday that Matt Keogh, um, has had more strikes than a baseball game, and he should be forced to resign, otherwise the prime minister should sack him for his treatment of veterans.
Mark LevyHOST
Um, and this is in relation to, um, Sean McCarthy, the late Sean McCarthy.
Jamie RogersGUEST
... for more spending.
Jamie RogersGUEST
Matt Keogh, he should be standing down.
Jamie RogersGUEST
Jim Chalmers, there's lots of rumors and sharks circling him that he should be standing down.
Jamie RogersGUEST
Ann Ali.
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