Sky News host Chris Smith says former prime minister Scott Morrison's secret accrual of five ministerial portfolios was 'control freak behaviour' that bordered 'on the sinister'.
'It's all well and good to claim that during a national emergency, a pandemic, the PM of the day needs to provide some kind of backup or safety net,' Mr Smith said.
'In the process of administering massive amounts of money for vaccines and in stimulus.
'That's almost believable.
'But to secretly instruct the Governor General, to hand you the Resources portfolio to overrule a Minister who's done all his due diligence will be exactly what you can bet the current Prime Minister will pursue endlessly.'
