Politics has strange bedfellows.

Your not wrong on that one!

The latest keeper of the lake of green slime Australia has become, mommy’s good little boy Tony, is simply keeping up with his petty and childish schoolyard sniping, while ignoring the issues concerning his debt trapped middle class, rising interest rates and an inflation rate not seen since the early eighties.

The huge damage this is and will continue to have, on his aspirational followers from the inner city and points Eastwards, will hopefully see him turfed out on his smartarse ear sooner than later, one would hope.

Dan

So, nothing illegal here! But why then the need for so much secrecy? And was the GG mislead in his role as the presiding official?

None of this though not illegal passes the pub test and during the next election the minister for Cooke may find the electors have cooked his (tricky Dicky) goose for him?

Moreover, I believe the GG should consider his position?
Alan B.

Of course. The only odd thing about this classic party politics-driven pile-on is the possibility that the leak came from Morrison's side of politics. Otherwise it's all just boring ho-hum party politicking.

If Labor has made political capital from this, it is because Morrison has handed the opportunity to them on a platter.

Whatever the legality, it is a serious breach of good governance and accountability to have two people exercising ministerial responsibility for the same thing at the same time.

If Morrison’s actions were indeed justified by the covid crisis at the time, there was no good reason to keep them secret from the public, let alone from the people who legitimately held those positions.

And the only occasion on which Morrison actually exercised his secret powers had nothing to do with covid but was pure political expediency.

This is most certainly not “a minor issue”, as Scott Prasser asserts.

It won't be all that long before Albo will be forced to also do a Scomo with appointing himself to some Departments. Why ? For exactly the same reason as Scomo found himself needing to do that, just look at some of the ministers Scomo had & the ones Albo has.
A tiny bit dictatoring is required to keep things moving despite the duds !

What a miserable piece of apologist clap trap.

A huge reason for some people when going into politics is the power. Morrison just got even greedier than most and decided to grab what he could. It should be roundly condemned.

In truth it is borderline fascistic and should be of concern to any thinking Australian who is protective of our democracy.

Australians rightly judged this bloke as untrustworthy and turfed him out. The odd welded on sycophant still backing him not withstanding.