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ISSUE 665
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Morrison’s ‘Ministerial Incident’
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Australians are daunted and disappointed by
the news that the Ex-PM Morrison had secretly
appointed himself into five ministerial positions
during the period March 2020 to May 2021.
On Tuesday the Solicitor-General stated in his
report that the appointments were legal and valid.
But without making them public could make it hard
to hold whoever accountable for those ministerial
duties and decisions thus not the way to work for
a responsible government. PM Albanese said
Morrison must be held responsible for this incident
but it would still be his personal choice as to whether
he should resign from the Parliament.
Many of us are puzzled by the incident as the
appointments were kept in the dark and Morrison
had only exercised his ministerial role once in
making a governance decision. To see this as a
power abuse, secrecy or dictatorship may not be
the truth. According to Morrison’s explanation,
this act was aimed to cope with the pandemic for
‘special need’ purposes although he admitted it was
unnecessary with hindsight. We are open to take his
words or we can accept his move.
I rather see a human weakness of Morrison
when he chose to address the issue this way. The
two appointments in March 2020 were indeed
related to the pandemic. But while in disagreement
with the Minister of Resource, he relied on this
appointment for ministerial interference in his own
political interest bypassing an open dialogue. This
could not be an abuse of power because as a PM he
could override his ministers or even stand them off
with the agreement of the Governor General.
From ‘special need’ to ‘personal tactic’ can be
worrying in governance. But the Labor government
being the opposition party then obviously had failed
its duty during the pandemic for not checking up
those cabinet policies all made up by the PM and
the state premiers. They did not raise a question on
their inappropriate exercising of those ministerial
duties. We need to further investigate is there
something wrong with the system to allow such an
incident. Opposition party should have a role in this,
and while Albanese wants to investigate Morrison he
should also review other ministers and his own party
for identifying the underlying problems.
For sure Morrison’s disgraceful ‘ministerial
incident’ has adversely impacted on the Liberal
Party.
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