It's hard for a bureaucracy to rein in a power-hungry leader

Well I’m old enough to remember the Whitlam government, The Box and Number 96 (just to give some context) and I fail to see the connection you are trying to make between Whitlam and Morrison.

Unless you are trying to compare two completely useless and failed governments? I might agree with you there…… Or are comparing it to the first several months of Goughs government when he gave almost 50% of ministries to himself. But at least he didn’t hide it.

Try the reflective evidence – instead of ill-remembered prejudice: “Fifty years on, we can now see how much the circumstances of the time coloured perceptions.”
https://theconversation.com/half-a-century-on-its-time-to-reassess-the-whitlam-governments-economic-legacy-195651?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%202%202022%20-%202480424841&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%202%202022%20-%202480424841+CID_ec926961d7b43cf3759222514e0eafee&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Half%20a%20century%20on%20its%20time%20to%20reassess%20the%20Whitlam%20governments%20economic%20legacy

The difference is that a Labor leader can stuff up and still be revered but a Coalition leader is condemned eternally.

They didn’t secretly have themselves sworn into additional portfolios.

Megsy,
and?

They still actually excercised powers and removal of personal freedoms far in excess of what Morrison did. Yet the people condemning Morrison have a massive overlap of the people who praised those state leaders.

2019-20 Bushfires – “Why doesn’t Morrison control everything, this is a national emergency, he needs to act”

2022 – “I can’t believe Morrison was so power hungry”.

The difference here is secrecy. Morrison told no-one – not even the ministers who were supposed to be in charge of those areas.

Megsy,
Once again you aren’t explaining why that’s a bad thing?

Governments at all levels keep things secret around their decisions and how they come about.

If you are saying we need more transparent government at all levels then I would agree.

But Morrison isn’t even remotely the worst example of that in recent memory.

And those attacking Morrison are almost completely silent on the same issue with politicians that are left leaning.

Almost like this has zero to do with anything other than partisan politics. ie. All days ending in y.

There always seems to be some who link his role as PM to his personal faith.
I’d be interested to know whether they were also critical of Kevin Rudd, who also professed a Christian faith or maybe Senator Wong or is it just restricted to members of the LNP?
By all means, be critical of his parties policies. That’s fair game, but when attacking someone based on their religion, there are serious issues at hand.

It is he who constantly claimed that his religion determined his actions. He used religion as a cover, as a justification and qualification saying he’d been chosen by God for this role. None of the others shoved it in our faces so often, nor did they use it to justify poor behaviour.

I don’t think most people have any problem with religion that quietly guides someone to do what’s right, but that is not how Morrison acted. He used his religion to justify his right to do things that harmed others. He has still not taken personal responsibility for the harms he caused. He completely ignored the damage he did to real people and their distress, showing a complete lack of understanding and compassion, something that does not sit comfortably with what most of us believe is Christian behaviour. His claim to faith contradicted his actions so often, that it reeked of hypocrisy and lies.

His party membership was irrelevant as was his religion, both of which he used only to gain personal power over others. If he was following his religion, it doesn’t say anything positive about that particular brand of religion.

Leviathan Labor legend Graham Richardson used to say getting into a position of political power was achieved by “whatever it takes”.

And you say Morrison hid behind his religion? Get real.

I’m sorry, but you speak twaddle.

You are implying is that Mr Morrison ran the country as if he was religious dictator.

While his faith may have influenced his thinking,
Australia has a secular parliament and Mr Morrison had no powers of control. Every piece of Legislation in the lower house was debated and all everyone voted.
His party didn’t even have control of the Senate.

Are you also forgetting that it was Mr Morrison who allowed the Same Sex vote in the Parliament?

Hardly fits the picture you paint does it?

I’m happy to attack his personal faith because I don’t believe many of his words and actions resemble what I understand to be Christian values. For instance, I find it hard to reconcile his estrangement from the truth with what I understand are Christian values.

It has been reported he often (as in most days) recited bible passages to his Ministers and staff. Not everyone has the same religious beliefs. This is not appropriate in a workplace.

You forget that lots of decisions can be made by the executive & are not overseen by Parliament.