Opinion

Scott Morrison has failed the pub test over secret portfolio scandal

Amanda Vanstone
Updated August 18 2022 - 6:38am, first published 5:30am
Then prime minister Scott Morrison on the campaign trail. Picture Peter Lorimer
Then prime minister Scott Morrison on the campaign trail. Picture Peter Lorimer

Scott Morrison's suggestion that he had himself sworn into a number of ministries because we were in a crisis doesn't pass either the front bar of the pub or the tuck shop test. Sure, it's fair to call the pandemic a crisis. It may have been fair enough to have an ever ready health minister. There's no reason whatsoever that it had to be the prime minister. It could have been a junior minister in the health portfolio, the finance minister, the treasurer or a number of other ministers.

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Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Vanstone is a former senator for South Australia, a former Howard government minister, and a former ambassador to Italy. She writes fortnightly for ACM.

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