Scott Morrison’s secret ministries have thrown a shadow over the highest office in our land, providing further evidence that a Governor-General is no longer fit for purpose.
Though the current incumbent David Hurley, appointed by then prime minister Scott Morrison in 2018, has not trashed the conventions in the same way as his predecessor Sir John Kerr did in 1975 by sacking prime minister Gough Whitlam, he has nonetheless exposed fatal flaws in the system.
