Major general peter cosgrove interview

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Sir Peter Cosgrove spent more than three decades in the army, serving in Vietnam and East Timor.

After reaching the top in the military he then became the Governor-General in 2014.

SIR PETER COSGROVE: I am at once humbled and proud to assume the office as Governor-General.

LEIGH SALES: Since his retirement last year, he's written a memoir called You Shouldn't Have Joined.

Sir Peter Cosgrove has lived many lives – Governor General, Chief of the Defence Force, and INTERFET Commander, but he says it's his.

Sir Peter Cosgrove has lived many lives – Governor General, Chief of the Defence Force, and INTERFET Commander, but he says it's his.

' General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently.

The text is not a portion of a transcript from an interview between ABC TV journalist Leigh Sales and former governor-general Sir Peter Cosgrove.

Sir Peter Cosgrove interview with Angela Catterns, ABC North Coast.

It's a portion of an ABC radio interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military.

Sir Peter, nice to see you.

SIR PETER COSGROVE, FORMER GOVERNOR-GENERAL: Good to see you again.

LEIGH SALES: Let me take you back to the day you received a phone call from the then prime minister, Tony Abbott, to invite you to become the governor-general.

It was a little bit awkward because it was top secret but you happened to be in a car with other people.

What happened?

PETER COSGROVE: Well, there was a big eared board colleague of mine sitting alongside me. There had been a bit of speculation about the governor-generalship