Previous Australian PM supports confidential power grab

(MENAFN) Australia’s former-premier on Wednesday supported secretly appointing himself to many top ministries in the COVID-19 outbreak, refusing blames he made a “shadow government” and undermined the nation’s democracy.

Refusing bipartisan requests to make an apology and step down from Parliament, Scott Morrison said he was right to take “emergency powers” over the health, treasury, finance, resources and home businesses departments, without announcing to the public or his Cabinet coworkers.

“I was steering the ship in the middle of the tempest,” the previous Conservative president stated in a defiant first public appearance since the scandal broke, firing detractors who were “standing on the shore after the fact.”

“Only I could really understand the weight of responsibility that was on my shoulders, and on no one else,” Morrison added, calling his decisions “break-glass-in-case-of-emergency” safeguards.

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