Opinion | All prime ministers have their idiosyncrasies. But none have had the constitutional implications of Scott Morrison’s peccadillo – appointing himself to ministerial portfolios with an alacrity that would make a dictator blush | JacquelineMaley
All prime ministers have their idiosyncrasies. Tony Abbott ate the onion and Kevin Rudd wrote a children’s book about his cat. Former British PM Gordon Brown reportedly consumed nine bananas a day during his time in office.
It seems never to have occurred to Morrison that the trust needed to flow back in the other direction. To be fair, he was busy.Clearly enjoying this Daddy-knows-best system of government, Morrison got grabby. Next, his eye roved to Mathias Cormann – he wanted a piece of that, he decided and swore himself in as finance minister.Morrison should have that power. So he took it. He reportedly neglected to tell Cormann, who only found out when the rest of us did.
Without a full review of the legal literature, it’s hard to say precisely whether it is wrong, but it doesn’t feelAs a general rule, when you start appointing yourself to positions of great power, a special klaxon should sound at Admiralty House.Idi Amin – who was never in charge of a vaccine rollout – styled himself as Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa and Uganda in Particular.
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