He kept signing off on it

Governor-General David Hurley says he was only doing what he was told by then prime minister Scott Morrison and that he had no reason not to believe Morrison would not communicate the decision. By this, he means communication with Morrison’s colleagues, but what about communication with the Australian people?

Surely, after signing off on the first couple of appointments, Hurley would have realised that no such communication had occurred, or would occur, yet he kept signing off on the prime minister being head of other ministries. He just stood by and did nothing. It seems conventions need to be codified and, additionally, that the governor-general’s office should be required to publish heads of ministries so there is no confusion.The Howard government’s shameful treatment of Timor-Leste is now back to thwart the current government’s efforts to reduce Chinese influence on our island neighbours.

Timor-Leste was cheated out of fair access to Timor Sea oil reserves after Australia bugged their negotiating team. Now China is offering to help Timor-Leste with a gas pipeline and President Jose Ramos-Horta is quite receptive to the idea. Why shouldn’t he be? Australia has hardly been a friend. Other island nations know our history well.I was pleased with the election outcome and glad to see the back of Josh Frydenberg as my local MP.

I can’t help wondering how different it might have been had Frydenberg found out about sharing his portfolio, dropped his loyalty to Morrison and challenged for the Liberal leadership, as many were urging him to do before the election. But we’ll never know.

Hope that appears on the InsidersABC programme.

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