The Scott Morrison ministerial appointment saga: A case of political theatrics

So, what’s the problem?

Indeed, you could argue that Morrison should be criticised for not using his additional ministerial powers to moderate some of the expensive and excessive decisions of his own ministers, and to take on the states as they locked people down and robbed them of their freedom and livelihoods.

Finally, we should see this pile on the former prime minister for what it really is – the politics of besmirching your predecessor so as to destroy their legitimacy. In the case of those former Coalition ministers and members attacking Morrison there may be some elements of revenge for some slight Morrison may have inflected upon them like sacking them as minister or moving them sideways in the ministerial pecking order.

Unfortunately, those Coalition members in this attack on Morrison are just playing into Labor’s hands and are showing their own political ineptitude.

Perhaps, everyone should ask how this so called ‘secret’ has come out? Has someone from the Prime Minister’s Department leaked it or is the Governor-General’s office to blame? Or is it someone within the Coalition ranks with a grudge against Morrison who knew the story. You never know who has been sleeping with whom in Canberra these days. Politics has strange bedfellows.