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•• The Sydney Morning Herald • Stephanie Peatling, James Massola, Shane Wright • 4 hours ago • smh.com.au
Morrison had five secret portfolios including treasury, home affairs
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has received advice that Scott Morrison was secretly appointed to five additional portfolios while he was prime minister in 2020 and 2021.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
BREAKING: Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews has called on Scott Morrison to resign, @jamesmassola reports. Libs are furious.
Story by James, @swrighteconomy and my good self.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
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•• The Australian • Paul Kelly • 3 hours ago • theaustralian.com.au
Frydenberg not told Morrison had sworn himself in
Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg was never informed by Scott Morrison that the former prime minister had himself sworn in as treasurer of Australia in May 2021.
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• news.com.au • Samantha Maiden, Jessica Wang • 5 hours ago • news.com.au
Full extent of ScoMo’s deception revealed
Scott Morrison has issued a lengthy 1279-word statement on Facebook on his secret appointment to additional portfolios during his time as prime minister, saying he did so “in good faith”.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
Josh Frydenberg - who lived with @ScottMorrisonMP at Lodge during pandemic… didn’t know he appointed himself to his portfolio either 👀 twitter.com/samanthamaiden…
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• ABC News • Markus Mannheim • 10 hours ago • abc.net.au
'Extraordinary': Constitutional dispute looms after safety inspector shuts down ACT Legislative Assembly
Speaker Joy Burch is threatening to take the ACT's workplace watchdog to court after COVID-19 fears led to a ban on hearings and committee meetings.
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•• The Sydney Morning Herald • David Crowe • 1 day ago • smh.com.au
Morrison’s mystery ministries reduced the Westminster system to a sitcom
Now we know how far Morrison went to centralise power. Thinking he did not really need his ministers, he had himself sworn into their jobs.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
This was a power trip, pure and simple. And a ticket to a political farce. Comment:
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
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•• The Guardian • Malcolm Farr • 1 day ago • theguardian.com
The secrecy factor is telling in Scott Morrison’s alleged ministerial portfolio grabs
If there was a compelling justification for this strange arrangement, why wasn’t it revealed to the public at the time?
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The Guardian • Josh Butler, Sarah Martin • 1 hour ago • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison secretly appointed to five ministries, including Treasury and home affairs, says PM
Anthony Albanese says former prime minister oversaw ‘unprecedented trashing of our democracy’ as Morrison’s colleagues Ken Wyatt and Karen Andrews call for him to be held accountable
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
Scott Morrison, 8.30am: "I don’t recall" being sworn into any other portfolios beyond health, finance, resources
Anthony Albanese, 11.10am: "Scott Morrison was appointed to five additional portfolios" - home affairs, treasury, health, finance, resources theguardian.com/australia-news…
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• The Australian • Peter van Onselen • 11 hours ago • theaustralian.com.au
‘Had we known, we would have rolled him’
Scott Morrisons brazen decision to secretly appoint himself to multiple ministries with the help of an acquiescent Governor-General is, as new PM Anthony Albanese said yesterday, the stuff of tin pot dictatorships.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Broede Carmody, Amelia McGuire • Last hour • smh.com.au
Australia news LIVE: Scott Morrison secretly appointed to five portfolios as PM; John Barilaro report delivered
The former PM’s secret portfolios have attracted condemnation from all sides of politics, the person selected for a London-based NSW trade role had to have his candidate brief “massaged” and legislation to establish a treaty with Indigenous Australians could pass Victoria’s upper house this week.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jordan Baker • 11 hours ago • smh.com.au
‘The scale is enormous’: How hypermasculinity plus porn hurts teens
Boys treated for harmful sexual behaviours tend to be between 10 and 13, and come from households where their hypermasculine father denigrates their mother.
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Hugh Riminton@hughriminton
Hypermasculinity, porn a recipe for harmful teenage sexual behaviour - a sobering read from Jordan Baker. smh.com.au/national/the-s…
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery • 13 hours ago • theguardian.com
Australian rental homes colder and more damp than WHO safety standards
Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds
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2GB 873AM • nikolinamatijevic • 8 hours ago • 2gb.com
EXCLUSIVE | Scott Morrison defends secret multiple portfolios
Former prime minister Scott Morrison is defending his secret multiple portfolios. It’s been revealed Mr Morrison secretly took joint control of three cabinet roles during the pandemic. Press PLAY below to hear Scott Morrison front up with Ben Fordham The portfolios include health, finance and resources, which enabled him to override any decisions made by […]
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Rachel Withers@rachelrwithers
"Did you take control of social services at any point? "
"No."
"Or assume any powers around social services?
"Not to my knowledge, no."
12:30 mark, for those keen to hear the high-pitched "no"s. Confronted at 18:00:
2gb.com/exclusive-scot…
8 hours ago
• The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola, Katina Curtis • 21 hours ago • smh.com.au
Search for documents authorising Morrison’s secret ministerial powers
The Albanese government is exploring the possibility that the former prime minister may have had been appointed to other ministerial roles.
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AAPNews • 2 hours ago • aapnews.com.au
Morrison's secret roles under legal review
Anthony Albanese says his predecessor as prime minister appointed himself in secret to the roles of treasury, finance, health, home affairs and resources.
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••• news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 1 day ago • news.com.au
ScoMo breaks silence with extraordinary text
Liberal leader Peter Dutton has revealed he was kept in the dark about the full extent of Scott Morrison’s secret appointment to additional ministerial portfolios while prime minister.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
BREAKING Governor-General’s statement to @newscomauHQ and on “shadow government” claims news.com.au/national/polit…
1 day ago
The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Maley • 11 hours ago • smh.com.au
Scott Morrison, a well-primed minister for everything
In the final days of the election campaign, Scott Morrison was filmed shoulder-barging a schoolboy on a rugby field. Little did we suspect he’d been doing the same to the Westminster model of government.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 8 hours ago • news.com.au
ScoMo’s admission on ‘secret’ ministry
Former prime minister Scott Morrison made a surprise call to a radio station to address, for the first time, revelations that he had secretly appointed himself as minister to a number of portfolios.
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The New Daily • Paul Bongiorno • 10 hours ago • thenewdaily.com.au
Scott Morrison’s ‘frightening’ secret ministry trashed conventions
Scott Morrison having himself secretly appointed as health, finance and resources minister is more than weird and bizarre – it is a frightening revelation.
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The Age • Aisha Dow, Rachel Eddie • 11 hours ago • theage.com.au
More than 1000 Victorians could have been harmed by triple-zero delays
While triple-zero call answering times have drastically improved recently, there were still weeks in May when more than a quarter of the most urgent ambulance cases were taking more than a minute to get through to ESTA, according to data seen by The Age.
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The Age@theage
Exclusive | Leaked documents show triple-zero delays may have harmed more than 1000 Victorians, including very ill children and those having heart attacks | @aishamae theage.com.au/national/victo…
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Vince Rugari • 11 hours ago • smh.com.au
The teenager who saved his bush footy club from oblivion – then coached them to a premiership
Meet Mannix Hunt, 17, who stepped up as captain-coach when the Barcaldine Sandgoannas were struggling to put a team together. Today, they’re champions.
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The Age • Annika Smethurst • 1 hour ago • theage.com.au
‘Teal’ candidate poised to take on Liberals in state seat of Caulfield
Voices of Caulfield, a new community group that emerged from the successful Voices of Goldstein campaign, has chosen a candidate for the marginal seat of Caulfield.
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 18 hours ago • news.com.au
Sleepless PM ‘drugged’ during pandemic
Scott Morrison was so worried during the Covid-19 pandemic that he suffered from insomnia and relied on drugs to sedate him into sleep.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • 22 hours ago • theguardian.com
NSW clubs’ lobby alleges whistleblower Troy Stolz waged media campaign to ‘tarnish’ its reputation
ClubsNSW alleges in a federal court document that sending information to journalists was intended to breach confidentiality
The Australian • Cleo Paskal, Anthony Bergin • 1 day ago • theaustralian.com.au
Sogavare is staging a coup to turn Solomons into clone of China
Last week dignitaries, including US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, gathered for a dawn ceremony on Bloody Ridge in Solomon Islands to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of the brutal battle for Guadalcanal.
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ABC News • Patricia Karvelas • 2 hours ago • abc.net.au
Morrison defies logic when it comes to explaining his 'secret' positions
At a time when democracy is under strain and threat around the world, and trust in institutions is fragile, the decision by former prime minister Scott Morrison to secretly appoint himself to five ministries including Treasury is both unfathomable and alarming, writes Patricia Karvelas.
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Patricia Karvelas@PatsKarvelas
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Democracy is fragile and should NEVER be treated like this, I’ve burst into print: The questions we need answered about Morrison's 'secret' ministries #auspol ⁦@RNBreakfast⁩ abc.net.au/news/2022-08-1…
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••• The Australian • GEOFF CHAMBERS • 1 day ago • theaustralian.com.au
Morrison appointed by GG to take over super department
Scott Morrison was appointed by Governor-General David Hurley to take control of the entire Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 11-months before he scuttled an offshore gas project weeks out from the federal election.
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The Monthly • Rachel Withers • 1 day ago • themonthly.com.au
The cabinet of Scott’s grandiosity
What could explain Morrison’s self-appointments other than a pathological penchant for power and secrecy?
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ABC News • Nicole Hegarty • 5 hours ago • abc.net.au
Albanese says Morrison secretly gave himself five portfolios in 'sad indictment' of former government
Anthony Albanese accuses Scott Morrison of orchestrating an "unprecedented trashing of democracy", revealing the former PM secretly appointed himself to five ministries during the term of the previous government.
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • 5 hours ago • crikey.com.au
David Hurley did exactly what he was supposed to do. Spare us activist G-Gs
Critics of Governor-General David Hurley over the multiple Morrison ministries miss that it was not his role to second-guess his PM.
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Crikey • Bernard Keane • 5 hours ago • crikey.com.au
Coalition MPs finally discover a political norm they don't like being trashed
How did it take Coalition MPs so long to work out Scott Morrison couldn't be trusted with political norms and conventions?
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • 5 hours ago • crikey.com.au
Suspected QAnon figure Ron Watkins has gone dark and tried to scrub his internet history since being spotted in Australia
One explanation for Ron Watkins' sudden silence is that he's trying to avoid being deported from Australia.
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ABC News • Jake Evans • 8 hours ago • abc.net.au
Scott Morrison apologises to colleagues for secret ministry grab, as former home affairs minister calls on him to quit parliament
A senior Liberal frontbencher says former prime minister Scott Morrison must quit parliament, after learning her role was jointly controlled by him without her knowledge or that of the nation's top intelligence officials.
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Crikey • David Hardaker • 5 hours ago • crikey.com.au
Morrison and Pompeo: an off-the-books foreign policy bond that needs probing
The Albanese government should add the former PM's relationship with the former US secretary of state to its investigation.
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InQueensland • 7 hours ago • inqld.com.au
Was this man (a) crazy; (b) a delusional megalomaniac or (c) just a very 'loose unit'?
Scott Morrison’s ministry collecting ways highlights what a loose unit he was as prime minister, says Dennis Atkins. It also reinforces why we need to review the whole of the pandemic response.
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The Kicker • 7 hours ago • thekicker.substack.com
THANK YOU CHAPPELLI
Former Australian captain Ian Chappell retired from broadcasting today after 45 years in the commentary box. Apart from his on-field feats, here are 10 scarily frank quotes to remember him by. ***
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The Hill • Fereshta Abbasi, Opinion Contributor • 17 hours ago • thehill.com
A year after the Taliban takeover, my heart remains in Kabul
In my native language, Farsi, we often attach the word “Jan” to the end of a person’s name as a term of endearment. Translated literally, Jan means “soul,” and it’s reserved for the living beings w…
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michael Koziol • 2 days ago • smh.com.au
The battle for the ‘light greens’: How renters are reshaping politics
They’re progressive, climate conscious and care about housing affordability - but they’re not wedded to a political team.
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Kos Samaras@KosSamaras
Thomas Piketty, sums it up best. The ratio between capital and income is fast approaching 19th century levels. In Australia, that point has already been reached.
And it means a lot for politics in this country. I have a bit to say here in this yarn.
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smh.com.au/national/the-b…
2 days ago
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • 6 hours ago • theguardian.com
Academy Awards apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather for Oscars speech moment
Nearly 50 years after speech on behalf of Marlon Brando about depiction of Native Americans, Academy apologises for ‘unwarranted’ abuse she endured
•• The Guardian • Josh Butler, Sarah Martin • 1 day ago • theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese seeks legal advice over reports Scott Morrison secretly swore himself into ministry roles
Former prime minister’s senior cabinet colleagues say they were unaware he allegedly swore himself into three ministry positions
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Josh Butler@JoshButler
breaking: Governor-General David Hurley's office confirms he swore Scott Morrison into various portfolios - saying they "do not require a swearing-in ceremony", can be done by administrative instrument
says decision not to publicise is a matter for Govt theguardian.com/australia-news…
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Australian Financial Review • John Kehoe • 11 hours ago • afr.com
Shake up welfare system: Labor MP
Social services need to put less focus on income redistribution and universal coverage and greater emphasis on investing for the long term in vulnerable people, Daniel Mulino argues in a new book.
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ABC News • Josie Taylor, Shannon Schubert • 1 day ago • abc.net.au
Unit two men escaped from at youth prison 'closed permanently', Victorian Department of Justice says
The closure comes as workers complain of "severe anxiety" and "extra pressure" to keep units settled while understaffed, with one describing how they have experienced difficulty sleeping since the escape.
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ABC • 12 hours ago • abc.net.au
How the 'teals' are playing politics
The last parliament was dogged by allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. But since the election, there's a new force in Canberra, with a record number of women winning seats on the parliamentary crossbench. Today 4 Corners reporter Louise Milligan on her fly-on-the-wall access to some of the independents. Featured: Louise Milligan, 4 Corners
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Pearls and Irritations • Phill Hynes • 11 hours ago • johnmenadue.com
The goading of China continues day after day. Pelosi was just the most recent deliberate provocation
The conditions for a war in Asia are ripening by the day, but be under no illusion, this situation is not organically happening.
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The Guardian • Martin Pengelly • 9 hours ago • theguardian.com
Trump demands return of seized documents – by order of social media
FBI took records including some top secret national security files after a search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago property
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 11 hours ago • news.com.au
‘This is sinister’: Turnbull blasts Morrison’s secret moves
Malcolm Turnbull has slammed revelations that Scott Morrison secretly swore himself into up to five different cabinet portfolios while he was prime minister as “sinister”, “incredible” and an affront to democracy.
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Samantha Maiden@samanthamaiden
“I’m astonished that Morrison thought he could do it…I’m even more astonished that the Governor-General was a party to it.
“This is sinister stuff,” @TurnbullMalcolm on the secret ministry revelations news.com.au/entertainment/…
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• The Sydney Morning Herald • James Massola • 23 hours ago • smh.com.au
Albanese to seek advice on legality of Morrison secretly swearing himself into additional portfolios
The prime minister has accused Scott Morrison of running a fake government that was “unbecoming, cynical and just weird”.
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David Crowe@CroweDM
First, the Governor-General's office should be able to point to the "administrative instrument" he signed. Where is it?
Second, the Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet should be able to release documents that show when Scott Morrison took on these duties.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
1 day ago
••• news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • 1 day ago • news.com.au
Morrison grilling continues over ‘unorthodox’ move
Former finance minister Mathias Cormann was left in the dark that then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison had sworn himself into his portfolio and was never informed of the secret arrangement.
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The Guardian • Melissa Davey • 13 hours ago • theguardian.com
Nurse practitioners the cure for spiralling healthcare costs, peak body says
Nursing bodies say increasing the role of nurses – not the Medicare rebate – is the solution to Australia’s bulk-billing crisis
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The Australian • KYLAR LOUSSIKIAN, SOPHIE ELSWORTH • 10 hours ago • theaustralian.com.au
Packer: Costello called treasurer on my behalf
Peter Costello made an important call to then Victorian treasurer Michael OBrien on behalf of James Packer in 2014, the businessman has alleged in correspondence with the ex-treasurer.
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The Age • Chris Summers • 11 hours ago • theage.com.au
Why I changed careers to teach high school – then quit
Both my parents were teachers, I went to the local public school and wanted to teach in low-socioeconomic, challenging environments. But I didn’t make it to five years in the job.
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