ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison didn't need a cabinet room to speak to his ministers — he just needed a mirror
There's a school of thought that suggests Scott Morrison had no need for a cabinet room, let alone ministers to sit at the table alongside him.
But as today's revelations have shown, there were deep-seated secrets that even those in-the-know cabinet ministers didn't know.Morrison had himself sworn into the health and finance portfolios in the dark days of a deadly pandemic Sources have told the ABC that then-health minister Greg Hunt agreed to Morrison joining him as health minister as a safeguard in case he was incapacitated by COVID-19.
The ABC has confirmed Pitt was told sometime in 2021 in a meeting with Morrison, then-deputy PM Michael McCormack and senior members of their offices. Constitutional law expert professor Anne Twomey, from the University of Sydney, went further, calling the secret swearing-ins "bizarre" and "utterly inappropriate".
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