Scummo Conspiracy Theory 1.0

As Australians and some others here will know the Story of our former Prime Minister Scott Morrison (recently removed from office in landslide election he was at least partly responsible for) who secretly had himself appointed to no less than five other senior ministerial roles including Treasurer, Finance Minister, Health minister and Home Affairs minster. These appointments were in addition to the other men appointed to the tasks and kept secret from not only the Australian public. But in all but one case, the men who had the jobs officially.
To put this in perspective for the Americans. This is like the President declaring himself to be the Attorney General, the head of Homeland Security, Secretary for Health, and the Treasury and not even telling the people he could overrule them or do stuff without telling them.
Everyone caught up?
So Scummo is out of office now and just a lowly back bencher with a nice cushy job for three years. But all this has come out and people want to know why he did it.. Its seems its not actually illegal, because no one ever considerd anyone would do it.. But why? So far the excuses are pretty thin and related to emergency powers in a pandemic, which dont hold water, considering his slack attitude to the whole thing and his job in general. (One of the favoured attack ads in the campaign against him was him repeating "Thats not my job" over and over).
So heres my theory. This man is a deeply religious member of an evangelical church with some strange connections. I think he has become a sucker for the "Laws of Attraction" and taken steps to draw power to himself in the belief that god will present him with the opportunity to become the Great Australian Dictator, or our version of Trump.
Sadly for him, it didnt happen.. But it could have. They are both failed marketing men..😷

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Northwest · M

Yes, we're all too familiar with the tactic. Trump did it for 4 years, and did it in a very public fashion, and when he did not like the person in charge, he fired them and appointed someone else. We know why Trump did it, so what's your guy's excuse?

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Northwest His Excuse is that he needed to be able to react quickly in matters related to the Pandemic. Having failed to stop it entering (The states individually did a brilliiant job of shutting down the first wave, even isolating the one state that failed to hold it.) and being too slow in ordering up Vaccines and proper quarantine hubs. The one time he exercised the power was to stop a gas drilling permit, over the head of the resources Minister. Completely unrelated to the Pandemic.😷

zonavar68 · 51-55, M

@whowasthatmaskedman Scomo was frightened by the powers that Greg Hunt as federal health minister had at his disposal, but Scomo should have been more worried about the World Health Organisation (a branch of the UN, just like the WEF) wanting Australia to sign up for an agreement which would permit the WHO, not the Australian government, to make health orders and directives at a federal level in relation to lockdowns, forced vaccinations, etc.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@zonavar68 Woulda shoulda coulda didnt. And his health minister was already slated to retire at the election. Having been persuaded to stay one more term..😷