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Education Minister Jason Clare says it’s too early to say if Scott Morrison’s secret portfolios are legal and whether parliament will take steps to censure the former prime minister.Credit:I don’t know [the legality of this]. We have to wait and get that advice from the solicitor-general. It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to comment on that until we see that advice.
There’s no good reason for the former prime minister to have ever done this. We heard yesterday some pretty weak, mealy-mouthed excuses by Scott Morrison’s colleagues, including Peter Dutton, saying, hang on a second, we were in the [grip] of a pandemic and these were war-like situations. Well, we’ve been to war, and we never did this. When war broke out in Europe, [Robert] Menzies didn’t do this. When the Japanese were on the march on the way to Port Moresby, John Curtin didn’t do this.
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