What do we know about Morrison’s secret ministries? | katinacurtis
Revelations that Scott Morrison had himself appointed to a number of ministerial portfolios while prime minister have raised questions about how it was done, why it was kept secret and what the legal consequences might be.he appointed then-prime minister Morrison “to administer portfolios other than the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison took on the portfolios of then-health minister Greg Hunt, then-finance minister Mathias Cormann and then resources minister Keith Pitt without publicly announcing his decision., and News Corp publications have revealed this was to the health and finance portfolios in March 2020, and then the industry, science, energy and resources portfolio in April 2021. The latter move cut across the roles of three other ministers.
Morrison says if he had had to use any of the health or finance powers, he would have revealed he had taken on the portfolios.
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