Even his detractors are shocked that Scott Morrison would so “undermine the integrity of government”, as Karen Andrews, his home affairs minister, put it
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask, secretly swore himself into five different ministerial portfolios between March 2020 and May 2021. He held so many that he struggled to recall them all. He did not tell voters that he was extending his powers. Even his colleagues were kept in the dark.
Mr Morrison first started accruing portfolios in the early days of the pandemic, according to journalists at the, a conservative newspaper. To keep covid-19 at bay, his government wanted to invoke emergency powers under the country’s Biosecurity Act, but doing so gave vast, unchecked powers to the health minister . Mr Morrison and his attorney-general, Christian Porter, reasoned that creating a second minister of health would be a safeguard.
He also took on powers unrelated to covid, making himself minister of resources. In that portfolio, unlike the others, he wielded his new authority. As the federal election loomed, he overruled the resources minister, Keith Pitt, to cancel an unpopular permit for gas exploration off the coast of New South Wales. The company, Asset Energy, is challenging the decision in court.
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