Wednesday 24 January 2024

Scott Morrison announces on Facebook that he is quitting as federal backbench Liberal MP for Cook in late February 2024


"His name at home shredded, Scott Morrison looks overseas for a fresh start. Will he find his people?"

[Journalist Malcolm Farr, The Guardian, 23 January 2024]


Yesterday Tuesday 23 January 2024, Scott #LiarFromTheShire Morrison has finally announced his retirement from the Australian federal parliament - twenty months after the national electorate unceremoniously kicked his government out of office.

Apparently after twenty months of searching he has found employment commensurate with his parliamentary salary (or perhaps even a little higher) allegedly in the United States and, having passed the magical birthday which allows him the maximum parliamentary entitlements/benefits & flexibility in political retirement, he is now preparing to depart.

A great relief for much of the national electorate and for a good many members of the Liberal Party of Australia.

 

 

Morrison's official statement is found on his website at:

 https://www.scottmorrisonmp.com.au/news/the-hon-scott-morrison-mp-statement-regarding-departure-from-parliament-23-january-2024/


Sky News, 23 January 2024:


Sky News Australia can reveal the former prime minister, who announced his retirement from Parliament on Tuesday, will join Trump administration secretary of state Mike Pompeo at a new Australian-founded US-based military venture capital firm.


DYNE Maritime was launched in October by Australian investment banker Matthew Kibble and former US Navy officer Tom Hennessy with an AUD$157 million capital base to invest in AUKUS related technologies.


Mr Morrison is also expected to join former National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien at his firm American Global Strategies....


will still be based in Sydney but will likely travel frequently to the United States.


"A greater fraud and malcontent never disgraced the mantle of Prime Minister. That he was disliked throughout Australia goes without saying. That he was despised as well is truly extraordinary.....

He achieved nothing. He gave us nothing. He left our nation the poorer for his stain upon it. A charlatan and a pitiless, second-rate actor, he will not be mourned. Nobody will mourn him. There is just a darkness in our country where he once used to be."

[Ronni Salt, writing in The Shot after Morrison lost government, 27 May 2022]


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