Joyce said the Nationals risked losing its extra cabinet minister and staff they “weren’t entitled to” if he pushed back on Scott Morrison’s encroachment into the resources portfolio.
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says he didn’t push back after Scott Morrison overruled Nationals’ resources minister Keith Pitt to reject a controversial gas project because he did not want the junior Coalition partner’s power to be further diminished in cabinet.
“If I pursued this, it was quite simple. He just took away the portfolio that we weren’t entitled to and took us back to the number we were entitled to. He would have the portfolio back and we lose all power.” Michael McCormack was the leader of the National Party in April 2021, when Morrison was appointed to administer the department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, and was rolled two months later by Joyce. Pitt told ABC’sPrime Minister Anthony Albanese will on Monday receive formal legal advice from the solicitor-general on the issue.
“We have a Westminster system of cabinet government – that essentially means that the prime minister is the first amongst equals and it relies upon conventions,” he said.
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