ANALYSIS: The unrecognisable man who shapes what happens next for Morrison
Andrews's home affairs successor, the Labor MP Clare O'Neil, seized on the revelations about Pezzullo and Burgess to argue Morrison put the nation's safety at risk.
"If you don't understand how vulnerable that made us through that period, how dangerous that was for the country, then you should not be in parliament."ListenMorrison's behaviour "an unprecedented violation of democracy", says Clare O'Neil.He too joined the list of the wounded, injured in collateral damage coming from Morrison's freelancing.
Victorian Labor MP Julian Hill blames Morrison for the position Hurley was placed in but he wished the Governor-General had insisted on keeping the parliament informed of the ministerial appointments.Scott Morrison picked David Hurley to be Australia's Governor-General.Senior factional figures within Labor have told the ABC their government had grounds to sack Hurley for facilitating a breach of the Westminster convention of ministerial accountability.
It's a role that's been forever shaped by the events of 1975, when an overzealous incumbent sacked a prime minister.
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