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MORNING BRIEFING: Today, the parliamentary inquiry into the John Barilaro US trade job saga will hear evidence from two new witnesses.

One of the more bizarre things Scott Morrison said in his hour-long, sometimes combative, Wednesday news conference was that he’d had a “wonderful” conversation with Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday.

The former prime minister took on the health portfolio in secret in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, before appointing himself to four more ministries over the next year. Why did he do it and who knew?

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Former Senator Rex Patrick said General Hurley was "complicit" in the scandal.

He wants us to believe his portfolio pilfering was perfectly rational – but at the same time he admits colleagues couldn’t be told because they’d be shocked

Scott Morrison secretly gave himself several powers, and admits he used them in at least one instance. What were the jobs the former prime minister appointed himself to?

Federal parliament has been rocked by extraordinary revelations that Scott Morrison secretly assumed control of numerous ministries, including the resources portfolio, in the last term of government. The then prime minister went further and used his new powers to knock back a gas-drilling proposal off the New South Wales coast.

It was revealed this week that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison was secretly appointed in 2020 and 2021 by Governor-General David Hurley as a minister in the health, finance, treasury, resources and home affairs portfolios.