Former PM says the powers he assumed could have been ‘misinterpreted and misunderstood’ and caused unnecessary angst if made public
Morrison said questions about his behaviour were the result of people “not having walked in my shoes”.“I was steering the ship in the middle of the tempest.”
“We took decisions, I did as a prime minister, we did as a Cabinet, at federal and state level that some of us would never have dreamed that we would ever have to make,” Morrison said of his actions. Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews has demanded Morrison resign, as has independent senator Jacqui Lambie.
“The fact that ministers were unaware of these things is actually proof of my lack of interference or intervention… I was not co-administering any of these.”However, Morrison did not fully explain why he decided to add the portfolios of treasury and home affairs to his powers in May 2021, a year after taking on finance and health, saying only that “Covid was still real in 2021”.
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