Rifts open as Australia's new PM reshuffles cabinet

Australia's Social Services Minister, Scott Morrison (pictured in 2014), has rejected the idea that he had made a deal with the new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull so he could be promoted after the political assassination of Tony Abbott. - AFP/File / William West

Sydney (AFP) - The man tipped to become Australia's next treasurer Scott Morrison in a looming cabinet reshuffle angrily defended himself against accusations Friday he had betrayed former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Social Services Minister Morrison rejected the idea that he had made a deal with new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull so he could be promoted after the political assassination of Abbott.