Yesterday, embattled Christian Porter resigned from the Morrison cabinet, as he could not prove there is no conflict of interest arising from a blind trust established to help him pay the legal costs, incurred after he sued the ABC following its linking him to decades-old allegations of asexual assault.

The blind trust arrangement that brought Porter down didn’t pass the pub test, let alone the federal code of ministerial conduct.  

Porter’s Pyrrhic victory in his legal settlement has come to nothing.