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I lost the election because I was too good…..

Scott Morrison has given his fullest explanation for the Coalition’s federal election loss yet, blaming the “hit for the mission” of managing the pandemic.

Mr Morrison’s admission comes in a speech to an international forum in South Korea, where he has been mingling with other leaders, including former US vice-president Mike Pence, former US first lady Michelle Obama and former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad.

The speech to the Asian Leadership Conference in Seoul on Thursday was “given exclusively to The Australian“ ahead of time.

“The results we were able to achieve were no accident. It was ‘no fluke’ as we like to say,” Mr Morrison will reportedly say of his government’s management of COVID.

“Australia’s results do tell a proud story: One of the lowest fatality rates, highest vaccination rates and strongest economic performances of any developed country in the world.”

It is the former prime minister’s first major public speech since the May 21 federal election defeat.

He is expected to defend his government’s handling of the pandemic, ranking it among the world’s best – despite frustrations among some Australians.

“Australia has the third lowest mortality rate in the OECD at 401 deaths per million population. This can be compared with Canada at 1106 per million, the UK at 2688 per million and the US at 3031 per million. During the pandemic, we estimate that when compared to the average fatality rates of OECD countries, Australia’s response saved an estimated 40,000 lives,” he will say.

“More than 95 per cent of the Australian adult population have had two vaccine doses, and we have already commenced fourth doses.”

Mr Morrison will also say that Australia’s success was partly due to limiting the scale of COVID’s economic hit.

He will also explain the reasoning behind the national cabinet, a process that the new government has retained.

“Frustration with the national cabinet was actually frustration with the nature of our Constitution and federation,” he will say in the speech.

“But in a crisis, this was no time to engage in a political debate about our federation, nor as the national leader to pick fights with provincial leaders.

“Leadership often requires you to take the hit for the mission you are engaged in.

“This was certainly the case when it came to managing our federation during the pandemic.

“A crisis demanded that you curb your natural defensive domestic political instincts to focus on the bigger job and bigger picture. It could not be politics as usual.

“That said, for all its critics, the national cabinet proved its worth in the outcomes we were able to achieve together. And I am yet to hear of a better alternative.”

Mr Morrison will say he chaired 57 meetings of the national cabinet as prime minister – and there wasn’t always agreement around the table.

“At no time in our history had state and federal leaders met as often, as extensively and with such candour as during this time,” he will say.

“But we didn’t always agree, especially when it came to issues where the medical advice was not consistent, such as state borders, school closures or vaccine mandates.

“As the pandemic evolved, it became more difficult to keep uniformity in the various restrictions employed by each state as the experience of the virus was no longer uniform.

“When we disagreed, this caused great frustration among the public. While such dis­agreement was inevitable, many Australians found it difficult to understand why the prime minister could not just make the decisions.

“Some even mistakenly believed that the establishment of the national cabinet had devolved federal powers to the states. This was untrue. The states had always had these powers.”

The Australian reports that Mr Morrison will conclude that, on reflection, the key to managing the pandemic was to be across the detail.

“As I look back on those times now, there are many takeouts, especially from a leadership perspective,” he will say.

“One of the most important is that in a crisis leaders must be across the detail.

“You quickly become the central point of all information, communication and decision-making.

“You set the pace, tone and direction of the national response. Attention to detail matters critically, especially when it comes to process.

“Events move very quickly in a crisis. Sound process provides the guardrails to get things as right as you can, and the mechanisms to fix them quickly when you don’t.

“The flow and source of your information and advice, the decision-making process, your accountability and follow-up mechanisms, implementation plans – it all matters.

“This should not be confused with becoming a control freak, wanting to be hands-on in implementing all aspects of your response. That is a recipe for disaster,” he will say.

“You must be able to trust and delegate, understanding that you and your team will not get everything right. And you must reconcile yourself to the fact that when it does go wrong (which it certainly will at some point) and events conspire against your best-laid plans and advice, as the leader you will just have to cop it.”

 

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https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2022/07/14/scott-morrison-korea-election/

 

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god, mercifully for us, sent him to purgatory….

God still has plans for Scott Morrison, the former prime minister has told churchgoers, while delivering the Sunday sermon at a church founded by tennis great turned controversial Pentecostal preacher Margaret Court.

In his second post-election public appearance in a week, the former PM spoke at the 27th anniversary of the Victory Life Centre in Perth.

“Do you believe that if you lose an election God still has a plan for you?” Mr Morrison asked the assembled congregation, to rapturous applause.

“I still believe in miracles; God has secured your future; all of it’s true.”

The line was used in Mr Morrison’s 2019 victory speech after he emerged as the unexpected winner of a national election and, more recently, his concession speech.

Ms Court was a staunch supporter of the former prime minister who, like her, is an outspoken Pentecostal; she publicly prayed for his re-election earlier this year.

The church, which faced some criticism for telling followers that the “blood of Christ” would protect them from COVID-19, received some $500,000 in JobKeeper payments despite its revenue decreasing only marginally.

Mr Morrison spoke about rising mental illness before riffing on “anxiety”, which he characterised as a state of spiritual deficit or part of “Satan’s plan”.

“God knows that anxiety is part of the human condition,” he said.

“How do I know that God knows that? Well, he spent three years here on Earth with 12 very anxious guys. Every single day.”

The former PM said he was talking about an everyday state of mind, not a clinical disorder caused by “biological issues” or “brain chemistry”.

Mr Morrison also cracked wise about a seemingly biblical chain of disasters that had afflicted Australia in recent years.

“One day I was at the national security committee meeting of the cabinet with Josh Frydenberg, [a] great friend,” he said.

“I turned to him and I said: ‘I think it’s time we let your people go’.”

Mr Morrison has long blended politics and religion, and specifically the Pentecostal faith, from his faction of the Liberal Party’s preference for recruiting candidates backed by large church communities in Sydney’s west to the prayer group of MPs who served as his praetorian guard while in power.

He closed his sermon by telling the faithful they were, more than anything else, unique creations of God.

“Identity politics [is] something I’ve always railed against,” he said.

“The idea that you’re defined by your gender or your sexuality or whatever it happens to be.

“We trust in Him. We don’t trust in governments. We don’t trust in the United Nations (thank goodness).”

Ms Court won 24 grand slam singles titles and the most championships of any woman in tennis history.

She said she was called to the ministry after being visited by Jesus Christ one morning while washing up after breakfast.

Ms Court has often been the centre of controversy for anti-gay remarks including that modern women’s tennis was “full of lesbians” and that teaching gay rights in schools was an attempt to influence children’s minds as “Hitler did [… and] Communism did”.

Unsuccessful campaigns have been mounted for her name to be removed from a tennis stadium at Melbourne Park.

 

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https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/07/17/scott-morrison-church-margaret-court/

 

 

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god kicked him in the arse…….

 

BY Michael Pascoe

 

‘The divine right of kings’ was an especially obnoxious and self-serving doctrine whereby kings claimed their power came from God and therefore they were only answerable to God.

You might say it was all “God’s plan”.

Never mind the sundry murders, coups, wars and invasions whereby royal families were installed – apparently that was all fine by God.

You would think that by the 21st century we would be spared such tosh, but no.

We maintain the medieval concept of our head of state being an inherited position on the other side of the world – and that person inherits the role of the titular head of the Church of England as well. Quaint.

And we had until very recently a prime minister who effectively claims to have divine blessing for all he did and did not do.

Scott Morrison’s belief that it’s “God’s plan” strikes me as obnoxious for either one of two reasons, or perhaps both.

It defames God, blaming Him or Her for multitudinous failures and outrages.

And it’s cowardly, implicitly claiming it was all His plan, not the individual’s responsibility for failure.

The “God’s plan” excuse runs counter to St Augustine’s advice to “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you”.

To suggest that, whatever happens, it is God’s plan for you, is to abrogate responsibility, a copout.

Whether you are a believer or not, such fatalism might be a cuddly security blanket, but it is not a healthy thing to look for in people in positions of responsibility.

Which means in the pile-on after Mr Morrison’s sermon at Margaret Court’s church, it is fair to question the media and political failure to question just what Mr Morrison’s faith meant.

The then-prime minister was happy to parade his faith in election campaigns but resisted and was not pressed on its implications.

The ratbag end of Pentecostalism (and the ratbag bit is not far from the centre of that strain of Christianity) has beliefs that most of us would regard as objectionable, if not plain dangerous, if followed in government.

So is the real Scott Morrison finally standing up after all the Daggy Dad and tradie role playing, the photo ops and populism?

Or is this another Scott Morrison show, like suddenly switching his sporting faith from rugby union to rugby league?

In either case, is this a foretaste of Mr Morrison’s next job – rolling out the prosperity gospel at a church near you for fun and profit?

I don’t know. The real Scott Morrison, if there is one, has long been a subject for conjecture.

In 2019 I judged it fair to wonder if our prime minister was a nutter – it was a question never answered.

So now the “God’s plan” and “we don’t trust in the United Nations” wink is par for the course.

“It’s all God’s plan” is a seductive little belief, not as perverse as the Hillsong “God wants you to be rich” prosperity theology, but appealing in its echo of the sort of thinking that gave us the divine right of kings.

It makes a strong argument for the separation of church and state, for reaffirming that government needs to be secular.

Faith, after all, is purely a matter of faith. Doubt should be compulsory in any reasonable religion.

 

 

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https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/07/20/michael-pascoe-gods-plan-morrison/

 

 

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shameful scomo…….

Former prime minister Scott Morrison pressured public servants to publicise the interception of an alysum seeker boat on the day of the May 2022 federal election, a damning report has found.

But the officials in Home Affairs had acted with integrity and refused to amplify a media statement they were forced to write about the Border Force operation unfolding on the high seas.

The report into the extraordinary circumstances surrounding one of the last acts of the previous Morrison government was prepared by the secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, Michael Pezzullo AO.

Releasing the report late on Friday, Labor’s Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the outgoing government had pushed to publicise the Border Force operation “for political gain” as Australians were going to the polls.

Not only was the move “unprecedented”, Ms O’Neil said it “sabotaged” the protocols of Operation Sovereign Borders, making their on-water work “more difficult and dangerous”.

“The profound compromise of a military-led operation is without precedent in Australia’s history,” said Ms O’Neil.

“It was disgraceful, shameful, and characteristic of a national government which frequently pursued political interests above the national interest.”

 

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https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/07/23/scott-morrison-border-force-election/?breaking_live_scroll=1

 

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