Opinion: Morrison’s mystery ministries reduced the Westminster system to a sitcom | CroweDM
This looks like a bedroom farce, with doors slamming and characters striding on stage in confusion, but it should ring alarm bells in Australian politics because the itch to centralise control is part of every government. Morrison simply took it to an absurd conclusion.
Third, he gave himself the power of Resources Minister Keith Pitt, and possibly other ministers who shared the same federal department, for no reason other than a political dodge. Pitt cannot remember when, exactly, Morrison took his job as resources minister. He says it was at some point in 2021. The former minister does not even know when he started sharing the job! There is total confusion about whether individual ministers were told the prime minister had taken official duties in parallel to their own.
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