Morrison’s Resignation, AUKUS and the Industrial Military Complex
Scott Morrison is signing off, ending a decade and a half of involvement in the Canberra political scene.
The coronavirus-era Australian Prime Minister, who abdicated the power of the PM’s office and left the nation to be run by predominately totalitarian Labor state premiers, is shifting to the private sector.
Citing more time with his family and more time to connect with his Horizon Church family, the Pentecostal former Prime Minister said on Facebook that he was leaving Parliament at the end of February.
Morrison will take on the role of Vice Chairman with American Global Strategies, founded by former Trump administration acolyte Robert O’Brien (ex-NSA).
Alongside the Vice Chair position, multiple media outlets reported that Morrison will be working with Mike Pompeo (Trump’s former CIA director) in advising DYNE Maritime.
DYNE Maritime is an Australian-born US firm with links to Morrison’s brainchild AUKUS, the shared UK/US/Australia treaty for frontline defence of South East Asia and Oceania.
Other than condemning trans-activism, via the trademark quip “we don’t need gender whisperers in Australian schools,” AUKUS is Scott Morrison’s brightest achievement as Prime Minister.
One of the best moments of Scott Morrison's political career.
Shame the promise this showed was smashed to pieces when he abdicated the office of PM to totalitarian health bureaucrats & Chi-comm aligned Labor premiers. https://t.co/ftKhZfV91j
— Rod Lampard (@rod_lampard) January 24, 2024
AUKUS somewhat saves Morrison’s tainted legacy.
It stands alongside his life-saving management of border security, dubbed “Stop the Boats.”
Profiteering?
Critics, however, have rightly pointed out that Morrison’s just shifting gears.
They’ve accused him of jumping straight into bed with the (Globalist) Industrial Military Complex.
There’s some substance to the claims.
According to a Financial Review piece posted in October last year, DYNE M will build — as much as profit from — AUKUS, focusing on both civilian and military cross-over technologies.
Primary investment for DYNE comes from ‘Irongate Capital Advisors, a US-based national security fund that has invested in dozens of technologies, from unmanned systems to communications apps.’
Whether or not it could be argued that DYNE – and therefore Scott Morrison – is set up to profit from war is debatable.
Offering a reasoned argument for corporate investment in defence, FR explained,
‘DYNE Maritime was started by former (Australian) investment banker Matthew Kibble,and former US Navy surface warfare and intelligence officer Tom Hennessey.’
Kibble – who has ties to the Morrison Government’s treasurer Josh Frydenberg, also an investment banker – told FR,
“In an increasingly fractured world, the acceleration of collaboration among allies is essential for the continued exploration, safe passage, and environmental protection of our oceans.”
Partnerships like AUKUS, Kibble said, are “driven” by investment, innovation, and know-how.
It takes all three to “deliver [national] security and prosperity.”
In spite of these logical assurances, it’s doubtful Scott Morrison will escape the “warmonger” tar and feathering.
Disappointment
Apart from his highly politicised Hawaiian holiday during Australia’s 2019 fires, Morrison will also be bitterly remembered for his weak leadership on informed consent.
He did nothing to stop or speak out against brutish “papers please” bureaucrats, who divided the country into a medical apartheid, turning citizens into subjects, and subjects into enemies, via vaxed or unvaxxed.
This bitterness extends to the former PM’s double talk on vicious vaccine mandates – he still denies Australians were forced to take the experimental jabs.
There’s also the creation of the National Cabinet, which hasn’t disbanded.
This constitutionally questionable entity continues to enjoy zero transparency and/or independent oversight.
Among the critics not sad to see Morrison bow out, former Liberal Party member Craig Kelly aptly noted that his Prime Ministership is a tale of both ‘sadness and missed opportunity.’
‘Morrison was in office when he had the opportunity to be remembered as our greatest ever Prime Minister by standing up to the totalitarian madness of the State Premiers.’
Speaking with 2GB’s Ben Fordham, Morrison thanked Australians and said he was proud of his achievements.
Among them, he declared JobSeeker and “Australia’s lowest COVID mortality rate” as among his biggest successes.
Although he admitted “there had been mistakes and regrets”, Scott Morrison appealed for forgiveness.
There was no mention of vaccine victims, nor jobs lost because of lockdowns, or employees refusing to take the forced CCP-19 vaccine.
His official 1,296-word announcement was very similar.
In it, the former Liberal National coalition MP, turned PM, talked up AUKUS.
He also discussed “leading Australia successfully through a pandemic” (his words, not mine), and the history-making, miraculous election performance in 2019.
Scott Morrison’s retirement coincides with the May release of his new book, Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness.
Described as ‘less political, more pastoral encouragement,’ Morrison’s book is said to offer a ‘fascinating insight’ into Christian leadership in times of crisis.
I agree with Craig Kelly: Scott Morrison – a lot like the UK’s Boris Johnson — had tremendous promise, then blew it.
It’s unlikely we’ll ever know why both men capitulated such potential so easily and so quickly.
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“The coronavirus-era Australian Prime Minister, who abdicated the power of the PM’s office and left the nation to be run by predominately totalitarian Labor state premiers, is shifting to the private sector…There was no mention of vaccine victims, nor jobs lost because of lockdowns, or employees refusing to take the forced CCP-19 vaccine.”
Rod, your libertarian sentiments come to the fore here, with these two quotes being emblematic of your straw manning of any person or situation you disagree with, along with hurling elephants left, right and centre as though you’re only “preaching to the converted”.
As far as Morrison abdicating power goes, the reality is that the State Premiers always had the constitutional rights they exercised. You know that as well as I do. Why would you not allow the possibility that it was a good idea, but was derailed by those Labor Premiers who put political chicanery above the best interests of all? And as the Cabinet worked well for a while, then it’s not unreasonable to say that was the case.
But you expose your own anti-vax sentiments as though they were true when any reasonable person knows that they’re not. As the figures are pretty well in for vaccine injuries, courtesy of Senator Babet, and when they correlate with all of the post-approval data from billions of vaccinations globally, what is there to mention from Morrison’s position?
And as we now know that the adverse effects are no more frequent than from other vaccines, like Influenza, Anthrax and Smallpox for example, which have been in use for many decades, where is your outrage aimed at those?
And not forgetting the fact that you and others have for the whole pandemic been critical of measures taken to reduce infection and save lives because of the 1% fatality rate. But you all seem to be blind to the hypocrisy of dismissing those lives lost to elevate those who suffered injuries from the vaccines, at a far rarer rate.
As for jobs lost, and the associated economic fallout, I recall at the time you were one of a few Libertarian Christian commentators wailing about your grandchildren having to pay off the debt. But as I told you and others back then, none of you had lived through “the recession that Australia had to have”, which dragged on for several years in the late ’80’s and early ’90’s. At the height unemployment was at least 2% higher than during the lockdowns, while interest rates and inflation both hit double digits. As I told you guys nearly four years ago, that debt was erased by sound Coalition policies by the time of the Sydney Olympics, and as we now know (at least if you believe Jim Chalmers’ figures) we are back to a sound financial position., with extremely low unemployment.
By any measure JobKeeper was a roaring success.
As for the “CCP-19 vaccine” description, that’s just silly, and it just proves that you are incapable of mounting any rational case against the vaccines beyond your incessant ad hominems.
You’ll probably jump to the conclusion that I’m picking on you (as you have on other occasions) but that would miss the point. It’s disappointing to see such a talented writer wasting his talents through blind adherence to confirmation bias and a phase locked advocacy of ships that have long since sailed.
And you’ll probably jump to the other conclusion that I’m some kind of rusted on Morrison supporter. But that would simply not be true. But I think that history will judge his time in office, facing the unique challenges of his time that he did, far more kindly than your narrow, self serving view expressed here.
Soaring inflation, massive interest rates, ridiculous housing prices, vaccine injuries, distrust of government, scared families hurt by vax/no vax divisions, massive closure of manufacturing, a weaker Church whose pastors went along with being told they were not essential, all are a consequence of State governments following the CCP down lockdown lovers lane WITH Scott Morrison’s permission. We know for a fact lockdowns did more harm than good. We know for a fact that the emerging public health crisis is due to the fact the Wuhan Virus stopped all treatments, & check-ups, for much more serious conditions. We know for a fact there are heart related problems for young people – especially men – who were forced to take the so-called vaccines, which despite several boosters stills sees those injected, get infected! Not a win, Kim. Morrison dropped the ball, but by all means make this about you, & your prejudiced opinions of me.
Why do you treat every criticism of your opinions as a personal attack? It’s not about you , and it’s definitely not about me. It’s exclusively in relation to your article. And one which you described to another commenter here as an expression of love towards Morrison, in line with 1 John. Yet my tone is nothing if not mild compared to yours, yet you accuse me of being “prejudiced”?
And continuing to resort to elephant hurling only exacerbates the issues there, when all you do in response to my criticisms is to offer a laundry list of issues I responded to already as though I haven’t, and repeat the phrase, “We know for a fact” in relation to issues which, contrary to the claim, we know they are not facts (hence the elephant hurling), and are in reality false.
First, you refer to “Soaring inflation, massive interest rates, ridiculous housing prices”, as though these are consequences of government policies during the pandemic when they’re not. In fact, as I already pointed out, the first two are not historically high, and as both were low compared to other nations, ours actually show a more positive outcome than other developed nations.
You also appear to have missed where I pointed out the fact that the recovery has been swift.
And the notion that interest rates are “massive” is quite bizarre, especially considering the fact that I already made the point about our previous recession when they were several multiples higher, as were unemployment and inflation.
As for house prices being “ridiculous”, the reality is that they have been climbing at a steep pace for years before the pandemic. And there are so many factors feeding that phenomenon that your inclusion of it here shows a complete lack of understanding of the issue. And contrary to your claim about interest rates, one of those reasons is that they have been historically low for many years, long before the pandemic, and still are.
As for vaccine injuries, having already refuted that, it makes me wonder if you actually read what I wrote. The reality is that we now have an unprecedented amount of post-approval data from over 13 billion vaccinations, and it all proves how these vaccines are as safe and effective as any other vaccines, as I already pointed out. And in particular relation to the heart related issues for young men, when that mountain of data from every location on the planet consistently shows a frequency of around 1 in 10-20,000, and that they are easily treated and recover fully within days, then your claim is not true.
And worse is the fact that those heart issues, as with every other adverse reaction to the vaccine, is also a symptom of the infection, and far more frequent and far more severe. Not to mention the estimated 10% of all those infected experiencing “Long COVID”, with serious or even permanent damage to many organs as well as the heart, ruining lives and ending some prematurely.
So, where is your consistency if the suffering of people from these issues is your real concern?
Your attack on churches and their leaders and pastors is also coloured by your own position, ignoring even the possibility that the majority of Christians and their leaders, both at denominational and local level, complied with the health ordinances on the basis of “doing unto others” and “the common good”.
I could go on and tease out every single point. But why would I take up more page space when it would only be hammering the same nail? Besides, they’re all issues already dealt with in my previous comment. The reality is that you have conducted a public vendetta against Morrison from the very start of the pandemic, even before any of these issues arose. You now seek to hold him responsible for everything you believe was done wrong, while sticking to your raft of refuted anti-vax claims, even still doggedly describing them as “so-called vaccines”.
Bottom line: there are no shortage of criticisms that could be aimed at both State and Federal governments and their advisers. But yours is not one of them. Your response to me is proof that you are far too partial to your own dogmatic and consistently inaccurate point of view to be one of them.
Rod, polite but well put rebuttal of Kim’s perspective. Let the facts speak for themselves and then we can all make up our own minds as to what they mean for our personal circumstances, families and communities.
I’m one who was so relieved when the results of the ‘unwinnable’ election came in back in 2019.
How quickly Morrison completely blew the confidence middle Australia placed in him at that time.
The appalling treatment he gave to Craig Kelly who so bravely stood his ground over the alternative treatments to the Covid vaccine was the end of my respect for Scott Morrison. He should be in jail in my opinion.
Gaol, no, public accountability, along with State premiers and public health officers, yes.
How wonderful to see God’s hand in the appointment of an evangelical Christian leader to our nation. He loved his wife sincerely and loyally and his children the same. His political and media enemies couldn’t fault his leadership so they attacked him personally. Jesus said that would happen to us. I cannot comment on his prime minster ship as I have never been PM. But he was on his knees every night as he saw what covid was doing in the northern hemisphere and asked for wisdom from his Father. While the media said disrespectful and blatantly untrue comments about him personally, he stood still and took it. Though in my eighties I lived through covid and had great prayerful respect for some one who carried 22 million people on his shoulders.
How quick we are to judge those whose shoes we have never walked in.
Offering criticism, isn’t “judging,” it’s actually an act of love for both Scott, as a brother in Christ, and those who feel let down by his woeful decisions post 2020. Read 1 John from beginning to end. Thanks for commenting.
With respect, there was always going to be questions over the vaccines. Normally gov have years to come up with effective safe ones, testing, retesting and the like. However the world gov were facing a lab created virus and no body knew what effect it would have short term or long. They had to rush a vaccine and obv there would be org who took advantage. However the world has returned to normal in a pretty quick time considering. I personally the real concern was the virus and not the vaccines, a lot of people seem to have forgotten that. I think he did an incredible job at the time and I’m certainly glad he was at the helm during that time and not present Labor fed government . May he enjoy the next stage of his life
Maybe re-read the article. The “vaccines” & reactions to the virus have done damage that will take decades to heal. Consider the COVID lockdown tax being proposed in Victoria for example. As for not being led by Labor governments during COVID? When were we not? Those arrested for wrong think, those fired for defending informed consent – a fundamental freedom would disagree.
Such a shame to see Morrison sneaking off into the private sector.
it would have been good to see him face some consequences for his poor leadership during covid. He always was a neocon and shows his warmongering credentials
I am wondering is the purpose of the daily declaration? If it is to bash people for their mistakes. what good is that? I hope it is to call all of us to a deeper more active role in Christ. If we are looking for people or churches to lead us they are going to make mistakes and they are going to fall into to sin as soon as they take their focus off Christ just as we all do. Is Scott Morrison deferent from the rest of us? If someone offered anyone one of us more pay for less hassles, we would all jump at it and some of us would say it’s Gods will. I am glad God Judges as only he can see the heart. In time all of our works will show fruit it’s just a matter of time. By the fruit whether good or evil we will see where peoples heart lay. And the warning to us all is to plant good things so we will bring forth good long lasting fruit. If we don’t we will bring forth rubbish fruit and by that time it is to late to change that fruit.
Praying a royal commission into covid 19 goes ahead ..term of reference submitted to Senate committee to deal with terms of reference will if it goes ahead will help all understand, we hope , the deals done and the involvement of PM and others in things that continue to cause major problems to many Australians ..e.g. vaccine injury and deaths (include ongoing excess deaths ). I ,for one of many wrote to the PM during covid and his stance on mandates was a mixed message at best , which was sad to see in writing . Our family and many others lost jobs , careers , and even access to many services , including shops . Pray for truth to prevail in this nation. Yes forgiveness to be given, but recognition of wrongs , mistakes, and hope ‘never again’ will be the story of Australia regarding giving into health mandates etc of the like that happened , and is still happening in some areas of Australia
I agree, Stephen. Thanks for commenting.
Rod, a brilliant balance review of a leader who had opportunities by the hand full but “I agree with Craig Kelly: Scott Morrison – a lot like the UK’s Boris Johnson — had tremendous promise, then blew it”.
Thanks, Jim. Much appreciated. For those how have ears to ear…
*ears to hear
So right. Opportunity to fulfil his divine mandate was severely compromised. You cannot keep justifying backing down and ignoring cries for help and justice. He blew it at the expense of Australia. So sad!
Also the states did not have authority to do what they did. Power abuse and indoctrination ruled!
Actually, the States had every constitutional right to do what they did, but (especially) the Labor States used it, not for the best interests of their citizens, but for their own craven partisan political reasons, chiefly to undermine the Federal Coalition. That’s one reason why the Prime Minister is fighting so hard to limit the terms of reference for any Royal Commission.