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Brown Study

Brown study

26 August 2022

11:00 PM

26 August 2022

11:00 PM

Scott Morrison’s secret appointment of himself as the minister for five departments was certainly bizarre. However, it was clearly lawful, it occurred during a national emergency, it kept the principle of ministerial responsibility alive and no harm was done. There will be only one permanent result from Morrison gathering up multiple portfolios: when the trumpet sounds and the great statesman is elevated to the parliament in the sky, his obituary will say: ‘He shared several other portfolios with various colleagues for short periods.

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