An odd thing about the previous LNP Federal Government in Australia though is that the Prime Minister actually secretly appointed himself to various ministerial positions without even telling the people in those positions.
Rather curiously, he even appointed himself as the minister of science, and there were indeed bad science takes at that time, although maybe it's a coincidence.
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Well, they tended to fund various weird faith-based therapies and things without him being personally slotted into a position.
