Carlton Supporters Club

Massive stench about this, but apart from becoming Emperor, what exactly did Scotty expect to gain ?
Does he get a superannuation boost for being a minister with 6 portfolios ?
A resume filler…?
I could agree with LP that early on in Covid it may have been a insurance policy of sorts, but why the secrecy…?

It's a bit hard to judge this, as much as I want to slam Scotty the facts are not yet known, the media will want to paint it one way, however the implementation was clearly dodgy.

For example, I could argue that early in the pandemic the needs for leadership, governance and management were not clear. In this regard it's easier to take over an established portfolio, or more than one if needed, given they have established bureaucracy in place, than it would be to lump the unknowns of the pandemic on any individual. It was probably reasonable to say I can look over the day to day of several ministries, some ministers being constrained by border closures and the like, and free them to address the unknown pandemic as a team.

It also meant that the newly formed national cabinet had an equivalence across state and federal boundaries.

Even so, he should have done all this with transparency not secrecy, it left someone like Frydenberg in an untenable situation, and reeks of a secret NSW takeover of Federal politics.

I would think the biggest issues are yet to surface, wait until the states do a retrospective analysis of this.

He should be commended, 5 additional ministries and not a cent of extra pay.

Its all very Trumpesque, they will be raiding ScoMo's house next and fingerprinting the kids....
Havent got much time for the bloke as he is as slippery as they come and his next job will probably be as a used car salesman but I hope we are not going to waste a lot of tax payers money and time trying to pin his ar$e to the front door of the lodge in an effort to score political points when there are a lot more urgent matters pending..

Yes but…
This sort of shiite should not be swept under the carpet.

.I expect that the folk who were outraged by the Victorian Government’s state of emergency legislation will be up in arms about Scotty’s attempt at presidential rule.

We all knew Scomo was a little bit shady playing both sides to win/fall into the top job in the first place but this is next level. He deceived his whole party including his closest allies. He's finished.

As a middling voter I don't have a lot of issue with the PM taking on repsonsibility for extra duties.
In fact with the proper checks and balances it makes sense to have the boss with the back-up power should a minister be indisposed.

When Gough Whitlam came to power he and Lance Barnard divided up all the portfolios between them (Whitlam 13, Barnard 14) and they made quite a few decisions in the weeks before the new full ministry was sworn in.
Whitlam and Labor had a clear agenda and as leader of the party I doubt there was much issue amongst his colleagues with the process.
There was a bit of public outrage at the time, but they hit the ground running.

The big problem for Morrison is in terms of transparency and secrecy.
Let folks know...no problem.
Do it without that transparency...political career over.
It's time to go.

In typical Scomo fashion, being the dedicated servant of the people, he’ll resign after December so he qualifies for maximum benefits.