Scott Morrison

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Scott John Morrison (born 13 May 1968) is an Australian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Liberal Party since August 2018.

He served in Cabinet from 2013 to 2018, including as Treasurer. Morrison was born in Sydney and studied economic geography at the University of New South Wales.

He served as the director of the New Zealand Office of Tourism and Sport from 1998 to 2000, and as the tourism director of Tourism Australia from 2004 to 2006.

Morrison served as the state director of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 2000 to 2004.

He was later elected to the House of Representatives in 2007 as the Division of Cook in New South Wales.

Morrison was elected Minister of Immigration and Border Protection in the Abbott government, in which capacity he was responsible for initiating Operation Sovereign Borders after the Coalition win in 2013.

He became Minister for Social Services in a reshuffle the following year.

After Malcolm Turnbull had Abbott as Prime Minister in August 2017, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton unsuccessfully attacked Turnbull for the Liberal Party's leadership in August.

Leadership tensions remained as the party voted for a second leadership election on August 24th, with Turnbull choosing not to stand.

Morrison defeated both Dutton and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to become the Liberal Party's leader.

By the Governor-General later that day, he had been sworn in as prime minister.

Morrison went on to lead the Coalition to an upset win in the 2019 election.

Early life and education

Morrison was born in Waverley, Sydney's younger brother of two sons born to Marion (née Smith) and John Douglas Morrison (1934-2020). His father was a policeman who served on the Waverley Municipal Council, including a single term as mayor. Morrison's maternal grandfather was born in New Zealand. His paternal grandmother was the niece of Australian poet Dame Mary Gilmore. In 2012, he paid tribute to her in federal parliament on the 50th anniversary of her birth. Morrison was descendant from William Roberts, a convict who was found guilty of stealing thread and transported to Australia on the First Fleet in 1788.

Morrison grew up in Bronte, Alberta's suburb. He had a brief career as a child actor, appearing in many television commercials and small roles in local television shows. Morrison attended Sydney Boys High School before going on to complete a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) At the University of New South Wales, the University of New South Wales has a doctorate in applied economic geography. In the Christian Brethren Collection of the University of Manchester Library, his honours thesis, a sociological study of Christian Brethren assemblies in Sydney, was posted. Morrison considered studying theology at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, but he later returned to work after completing his undergraduate studies, partially due to his father's disapproving of his son.

Personal life

Morrison is a fan of rugby union and he has supported the Eastern Suburbs RUFC from childhood. He became a fan of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks rugby league team after moving to Sutherland Shire in 2016 and was named the club's number one ticket holder.

When Morrison and Jane Warren were both 16 years old, they began dating Jenny Warren. They married in 1990, when Morrison was 21 and Warren was 22, and they had two children together. Their children were born naturally after multiple unsuccessful IVF treatments over a period of 14 years. Their children attend an independent Baptist academy. Morrison has stated that one of the reasons for his decision was so he could avoid "the values of others being enforced on my children."

Morrison was born in the Presbyterian Church of Australia, which partly merged into the Uniting Church when he was a child. He later became a Pentecostal and now attends the Horizon Church, which is affiliated with the Australian Christian Churches, the Assemblies of God's Australian branch. Morrison is Australia's first Pentecostal prime minister. Horizon is not a traditional church in Australia, but it is a Pentecostal and evangelical church. Some people believe in divine healing and "speaking in tongues," which is regarded as a divine gift from God.

Although the Australian Christian Lobby endorsed the appointment of a prime minister with such deep faith, some Australians have been concerned about the consequences on his decisions. Morrison abstained from voting because of his faith as Treasurer of Australia during the 2017 election of same-sex marriage. "The Bible is not a policy handbook," he said, "and I get anxious when people try to treat it like one." Morrison said in late 2017 that he will continue to advocate for religious rights.

He believes that misusing social media is the product of "the bad one" and that working with "laying on of hands" is the Christian faith. In a speech to the Australian Christian Churches conference in April 20,21, he said he was elected to do God's work, but later said his remarks were inaccurate and that they were intended to reflect his conviction that "whatever you do every day... is part of your Christian service."

He told a Pentecostal church congregation in July 2022 that people should not go to government or the United Nations in any way, but rather place their faith in God. Anthony Albanese, Morrison's successor as Prime Minister, found this comment "quite surprising" and that the United Nations reference to the United Nations as a "nonsense throwaway conspiracy line."

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Early career

Morrison served as the national policy and research manager for the Property Council of Australia from 1989 to 1995. He then turned to tourism, first as deputy chief executive of the Australian Tourism Task Force and then general manager of the Tourism Council of Australia, and later in federal parliament.

Morrison moved to New Zealand in 1998 to become the head of the newly formed Office of Tourism and Sport. Murray McCully, New Zealand's tourism minister, was closely involved in the creation of the long-running "100 percent Pure New Zealand" campaign. He started working in 2000, a year before the work schedule was set.

Morrison returned to Australia in 2000 to serve as the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party's state director. In the 2001 federal election and the 2003 New South Wales state election, he oversaw the party's campaigns.

Morrison left the NSW Liberal Party post in 2004 to become the inaugural managing director of Tourism Australia, which had been established by the Howard government. His appointment was divisive due to its openly partisan character. He had been in for three years with the first three-year deal. Morrison accepted and defended the contentious "So where the bloody hell are you?" Lara Bingle appears in a commercial. In July 2006, his employment was ended, which was attributed to a squabble with tourism minister Fran Bailey over the government's decision to fully integrate the department into the Australian Public Service. The Remuneration Tribunal had granted him a salary increase three weeks before he was fired. Morrison was fired due to complaints that Tourism Australia was not following government procurement rules for three jobs relating to the "Where the bloody hell is located." The campaign was worth $184 million. According to a 2008 study by the Auditor General, "information had been kept from the board, procurement policies breached, and private companies engaged before paperwork was completed and no value-for-money analyses were available." M&C Saatchi, which had worked with Morrison on the "100% Pure" campaign in New Zealand, had reportedly been granted preferential treatment in the tendering process, according to reports. Fran Bailey said that Morrison showed no compassion for his colleagues at Tourism Australia and left her feeling threatened, as well as that he refused to provide her or the board with any information or to answer questions about how the ad campaign was distributed to Saatchi in 2022.

This episode and, more importantly, his marketing career culminated in his parody "Scotty From Marketing," a satirical news website that appeared in August 2018. It was taken up on Twitter in early 2019 and peaking at the time of the bushfire crisis on December 29. Morrison referred to the name in January 2020 as a "snarky comment" used by the Labor Party to discredit him.

Political career

Following Bruce Baird's departure, Morrison sought Liberal preselection for the division of Cook, an electorate in Sydney's southern suburbs, which includes Cronulla, Caringbah, and Miranda. Michael Towke, a telecommunications engineer and the candidate of the Liberal's right bloc, lost the election by 82 votes to 8. With 70 votes, Paul Fletcher, who was nearest to Towke, received 70. After winning Liberal preselection of Bradfield, the North Shore seat, Fletcher went on to win Liberal preselection.

However, evidence suggest that Towke had been involved in branch stacking and had embellished his resume. Morrison was elected by the Liberal Party's state executive and rescheduled Towke in a new pre-election election. The charges were later discovered to be inaccurate, and the Daily Telegraph was forced to pay an undisclosed sum to resolve a defamation lawsuit brought by Towke. Morrison faced a two-party swing of over six percent against Labor candidate Mark Buttigieg in the primary election, but was able to keep the seat on the strength of winning 56% of the primary election. Morrison accused Morrison of "racial vilification" during the 2007 election, including "advising party members that they should not vote for him because he was from a Lebanese family and because of rumors that he was a Muslim." Morrison denied.

Morrison was appointed as the shadow minister for housing and local government in Malcolm Turnbull's coalition front bench in September 2008. He became the shadow minister for immigration and citizenship in December 2009, joining the shadow cabinet for the first time shortly after winning the leadership.

In December 2010, forty-eight asylum seekers died in the Christmas Island boat disaster. Morrison questioned the Gillard Labor government's decision to pay for the victims's families to fly to funerals in Sydney in February 2011, arguing that the same right was not extended to Australian citizens. Morrison said that the timing of his remarks were insensitive but not contradicted the remarks themselves, after fellow Liberal and shadow treasurer Joe Hockey disagreed with Morrison's remarks. Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and former opposition leader John Hewson were among Morrison's colleagues who chastised him for his remarks. Morrison had "asked the shadow cabinet to capitalize on the electorate's growing worries" about Muslims and appealed to the public's perception of their "inability to integrate" to gain seats in the same month.

Morrison said in February 2013 that if any antisocial activity has occurred, the police should be notified, and that there should be stringent guidelines on how asylum seekers are living in the region if any suspicious conduct has occurred, and that stricter guidelines regarding bridging visas should be developed while they wait for the investigation. The new code of conduct was introduced by the immigration minister to the country's more than 20,000 irregular maritime arrivals on bridging visas.

Morrison was elected Minister of Immigration and Border Protection in the Abbott government and included in cabinet following the Coalition's victory at the 2013 federal election.

Morrison was identified by Fairfax Media as the leader of an informal group of "economically moderate, or wet" government MPs, as well as Greg Hunt, Stuart Robert, and Josh Frydenberg, based on a series of off-the-record interviews. It was linked to another moderate group led by Christopher Pyne. Morrison also applied for a $25 million bailout of SPC Ardmona, which was unsuccessfully, according to the publication.

Morrison launched Operation Sovereign Borders in September 2013, the latest government's attempt to prevent unauthorised vessels from entering Australian waters. Morrison asked for restructuring plans in order to prevent the delivery of permanent visas to 700 refugees, according to cabinet records from this time. In 2013, he said there were 300 boats and 20,587 people in 2013, down from just 1 boat and 157 people for all of 2014. The UNHCR expressed fear that the activity might have breached the Refugee Convention. Zero asylum seekers died at sea by December 2013, according to the survey, which was down from more than 1,100 deaths between 2008 and 2013. The annual refugee intake, which had grown to 20,000 in 2012–13 by the previous administration, was reduced to 13,750, the lowest level since 2011-12. "Not one of those places will go to anyone who comes on a boat to Australia [...] they will go to people who have come the right way," Morrison said.

Morrison defended his use of the phrase "illegal arrivals" and "illegal boats," saying that "I've never referred to unlawful entry." I've never said that seeking asylum is unlawful.

Journalists, Labor and Greens senators, and others were outraged by Morrison's refusal to provide specifics regarding the issues within his portfolio during his tenure as Immigration Minister. Morrison said that to reveal the operation's particulars would be to put them in the custody of people smugglers who used this information to plan unlawful smuggling activities. Morrison refused to answer questions regarding the status of asylum seekers or boats arriving or departing from Australia on several occasions, often on the basis that he would not reveal "on water" or "operational" matters.

The Australian Human Rights Commission released a report in November 2014 indicating that Morrison neglected in his obligation to act in the best interests of children in detention during his tenure as Minister. The overarching conclusion of the inquiry was that the continued, compulsory detention of asylum seekers' children caused significant mental and physical ailments, as well as developmental delays, in violation of Australia's international obligations. Tony Abbott characterized the study as politically motivated, referring to the timing of its publication after the Abbott government took power. In February 2015, the government released the report openly.

Morrison had the Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment in early December 2014 (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 passed through the Australian Parliament in early December 2014. Morrison gained more power than any previous prime minister in dealing with asylum seekers in Australia, including the ability to return asylum seekers to their place of residence, detain asylum seekers without charge, and refuse asylum seekers arriving by sea to the Refugee Review Tribunal. The bill reintroduced provisional protection visas to deal specifically with the backlog of 30,000 people who had served under the previous Labor administration but who had yet to be processed. The bill enabled those on bridging visas to work, as well as an increase in the number of refugees to 18,750.

Morrison was appointed Minister of Social Care and renamed Minister of Immigration and Border Protection in a cabinet reshuffle in late December 2014, and he then moved to Minister of Immigration and Border Protection. Christine Milne, the Australian Greens leader, had the appointment dismissed Morrison due to a lack of compassion. Morrison's welcoming attitude and eagerness for the portfolio had a softened change in image. Morrison encouraged working mothers and advocated for reforms to the childcare scheme by making indexation revisions to the Family Tax Benefits voucher. He announced the introduction of the "No Jab, No Pay" policy in April 2015, which withholds family and childcare insurance from parents who do not vaccinate their children. His time as Minister was criticized by opposition leader Jenny Macklin, who said that "Scott Morrison was expected to clear up Kevin Andrews' mess but left more chaos, confusion, and layoffs."

In March 2015, three hundred alumni of Sydney Boys High School wrote a letter protesting Morrison's attendance at a fund-raising function. According to the protest letter, the school should not honor a person who has "so flagrantly disregarded human rights."

Morrison unveiled his proposal for a $3.5 billion upgrade of the childcare subsidies system in May 2015. He was accused of overshadowing Treasurer Joe Hockey's role, according to reports. Despite his good results, Morrison maintained that he did not intend to take over the role of Treasurer.

Morrison was appointed Treasurer in the Turnbull government in September 2015, replacing Joe Hockey. He suggested a cut in government spending in his first press conference as Treasurer, and that the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) and White Paper on tax reform would be published on time.

Morrison handed over the 2016 Australian federal budget in May. It included the introduction of a 40 percent diverted income tax (also known as the "Google tax"), which is an anti-avoidance measure that seeks to minimize base erosion and profit shifting. The Diverted Profits Tax Act 2017 was passed into law and went into operation on July 1, 2017. Any quarters have chastised the new tax, with the Corporate Tax Association stating that it would have "unpredictable outcomes" and negatively affect Australian businesses.

Morrison delivered a slew of coal in the House of Representatives in February 2017, saying, "This is coal." Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. "It wouldn't hurt you," says Peter Lynch, who claims that those concerned about the coal industry's environmental impact have "an ideological and pathological fear of coal." In May 2017, he announced the 2017 Australian federal budget.

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation, and Financial Services Industry, also known as the Banking Royal Commission, was established in December 2017. Morrison was initially against the establishment of a royal commission, believing that a Senate inquiry would be sufficient. Between April 2016 and June 2017, he voted against a royal commission 23 times, and in September 2016 referred to it as "nothing more than crass populism seeking to smear confidence in the banking and financial sector, which is vital to jobs and growth in this region." Morrison described the royal commission as a "regrettable but necessary step" when it is announced. In reaction to the commission's findings, he announced the introduction of new criminal and civil sanctions for financial crime, including jail sentences for individuals and fines up to $210 million for businesses.

On May 8, Morrison presented the 2018 Australian federal budget. "My priority is to give tax relief to people who are working and paying taxes," he said later.

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