Could Australia's Center-Right Coalition Be At Risk In Wake of Fmr. PM's Ministerial Scandal

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(The Guardian) Morrison’s secret ministries breached Coalition agreement, Nationals Senate leader says
Nationals leader in the Senate, Bridget McKenzie, a former cabinet minister under Scott Morrison, says the former prime minister’s actions were a breach of the Coalition agreement.

Morrison took over the resources portfolio held by Nationals MP Keith Pitt to make a decision to block that gas exploration licence off the coast of New South Wales. -- My concern as the leader of the Nationals in the Senate is that the arrangements breached the Coalition agreement.

Complete disrespect for the second party of government, the National Party. Our Coalition arrangements are a negotiated outcome and they include a ratio of cabinet portfolios in the Coalition government and by essentially removing the authority of one of those ministers and giving it to a Liberal minister without that minister’s knowledge, essentially breached the Coalition agreement.

My view is that the National party would not have agreed with having one of its leaders removed. … it shows great disrespect on behalf of the prime minister to our party.