The Department of Industry was so blindsided by Scott Morrison’s move to appoint himself over former minister Keith Pitt as the key decision-maker on a politically sensitive offshore gas project that officials sought their own legal advice.
Secretary of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources Megan Quinn and other senior bureaucrats revealed to a Senate estimates hearing late on Thursday night that their predecessors under the former Coalition government sought advice independent of the prime minister’s department.
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