Australia announces inquiry into former Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Report finds he acted legally but 'fundamentally undermined' government principles by quietly taking on extra ministerial powers.

/TwitterMorrison's action was legal but "inconsistent with the conventions and practices that form an essential part of the system of responsible government prescribed by ... the Constitution," according to the solicitor general's advice.

"Neither the people nor the parliament can hold a minister accountable for the exercise of particular statutory powers if they are not aware that the minister has those powers," Donaghue wrote. "Nor can they hold the correct ministers accountable for any other actions, or inactions, of departments."Some of Morrison's own ministers in his Liberal-National coalition government have said they didn't know Morrison had been sworn into the ministries from March 2020 to May 2021.

The former Liberal Party leader maintains that he "acted in good faith in a crisis" and there "was a lot going on at the time" due to the pandemic.

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