Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie says she plans to take her party national, announcing she'll run federal candidates in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. But she's facing questions in her home state over the identities and influence of the Jacqui Lambie network board members.
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00:00Keeping a close eye on her Tassie team.
00:05Senator Jackie Lambie has unveiled plans to run Senate candidates in three other states
00:10at the next federal election.
00:12So they don't have to be with the major parties.
00:15And that's the opportunity that I want to give others in other states.
00:18But her federal expansion efforts haven't always panned out.
00:22Tasmanian Senator Tammy Tyrrell quit the Jackie Lambie network earlier this year.
00:28Senator Lambie insists she doesn't know why.
00:31I made it very clear to my people in the second half of last year that I'd be running nationally.
00:37If anybody wanted to leave, those people that were surrounding me, they could go.
00:42Senator Tyrrell told the ABC the national expansion was a mistake.
00:47But she said she resigned because Senator Lambie told her to.
00:51Earlier, she also blamed the network's board.
00:55I never actually wanted to leave the network.
00:57It was the board of the network that indicated to me that I wasn't representing the network
01:03how they thought I should.
01:05The JLN has repeatedly refused to reveal who is on its board, including in an interview
01:12for Stateline Tasmania that was recorded yesterday.
01:15They're private people.
01:18That's my honest...
01:19Yeah.
01:20We don't have a lot of interaction with them.
01:21On radio today, Senator Lambie said she didn't understand the big hoo-ha and named the board
01:27members.
01:28She says she became president about two weeks ago.
01:32This board, just so we're quite clear, it is a collaborative of people that are sitting
01:37around me trying to help others.
01:39That's all it is.
01:40It doesn't matter that they've got titles, mate.
01:42Jackie Lambie's answers about the loose situation on her board likely won't be enough to satisfy
01:48critics, who argue the party that made transparency one of its key talking points needs to be
01:54more straight up with voters.