Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison   (politician)
In 2014, Scott Morrison proposed mass detention camps for 30,000 people.
Born	Scott John Morrison 13 May 1968
Prime Minister of Australia In office 24 August 2018 - Present Preceded by Malcolm Turnbull

Scott Morrison is an Australian politician serving as the 30th and current Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the Liberal Party of Australia since 24 August 2018. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2007, representing the Division of Cook in New South Wales.

Background

Scott Morrison was born in Sydney and studied economic geography at the University of New South Wales.

Career

He worked as director of the New Zealand Office of Tourism and Sport from 1998 to 2000 and was managing director of Tourism Australia from 2004 to 2006. Morrison was state director of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 2000 to 2004 and was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 2007 federal election. He was appointed to the opposition frontbench after the 2010 election.

Following the Coalition's victory at the 2013 election, Morrison was appointed Minister for Immigration and Border Protection in the Abbott Government. In that capacity he was responsible for implementing Operation Sovereign Borders, one of the Coalition's flagship policies. In a December 2014 cabinet reshuffle, Morrison was instead made Minister for Social Services. He was promoted to Treasurer in September 2015, when Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as prime minister.

In August 2018, Peter Dutton challenged Turnbull for the leadership of the Liberal Party, due to dissatisfaction from the party's conservative wing. Turnbull defeated Dutton in a leadership ballot, but tensions continued to mount and the party voted in favour of holding a second ballot; Turnbull chose not to be a candidate. In the second vote, Morrison emerged as a compromise candidate, defeating Dutton and Julie Bishop to become leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister.

 

Appointments by Scott Morrison

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
Julie Bishop	Australia/Minister/Foreign Affairs	18 September 2013	28 August 2018
Peter Dutton	Australia/Leader of the House	30 March 2021	23 May 2022
Peter Dutton	Australia/Minister/Defence	30 March 2021	23 May 2022
Peter Dutton	Australia/Minister for Home Affairs	20 December 2017	30 March 2021
John Frewen	Coordinator General of the National COVID Vaccine Taskforce	2021
Greg Hunt	Australia/Minister/Health	24 January 2017	May 2022

 

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Document:The Assange Arrest is a Warning From History	Article	12 April 2019	John Pilger	Leni Riefenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the public: "When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen.”

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