Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman says they want to make sure Scott Morrison's secret ministerial appointments “never happen again” and will be conducting a further inquiry to get to the “absolute bottom of this”.
Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman says they want to make sure Scott Morrison’s secret ministerial appointments “never happen again” and will be conducting a further inquiry to get to the “absolute bottom of this”.
A further inquiry into former prime minister Scott Morrison swearing himself into five high-level ministerial portfolios will be undertaken by the Albanese government. “We have always expected that when the Prime Minister stands at the dispatch box and announces changes to the minister – we always expected that was the full story,” Mr Gorman told Sky News Australia.
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