Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says the political consequence for former prime minister Scott Morrison’s secret portfolio actions should be “severe”.
“What Scott Morrison has done is undermine the Westminster system of government, and in the process, he has treated the Australian people with complete contempt,” Mr Marles told Sky News Australia.
“To treat the Australian people with contempt in the way that he did, just keeping Australians in the dark, treating his own colleagues with contempt and treating the cabinet with contempt, surely that comes with a significant and a severe political consequence. “And I’m really interested to see from the Liberal Party, from the Opposition, about what they think that’s appropriate to be.”
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