Scott Morrison

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Scott Morrison (2019)

Scott John Morrison , also known as ScoMo , (born May 13, 1968 in Waverley , New South Wales ) is an Australian politician of the Liberal Party of Australia . He took over the post of Prime Minister and party chairmanship on August 24, 2018 after the resignation of Malcolm Turnbull . Morrison rules Australia in a right-wing conservative coalition with the National Party of Australia .

His given the climate of the coal industry in Australia facing policy and be perceived as apathy behavior during the bush fires in Australia 2019/2020 led to political controversy.

Early years

Morrison is the youngest son of John Morrison, a Sydney police officer, and his wife, Marion, née Smith. He has an older brother named Alan. Morrison attended Sydney Boys High School and then studied economic geography at the University of New South Wales . He is married to Jenny, nee Warren. Both met at the age of 16 and married at the age of 21. The relationship has two daughters together.

job

After completing his studies, Morrison worked for the Property Council until 1995 as a policy maker and then became Deputy Head of Administration for the Australian Tourism Task Force . He worked in the Tourism Office for two years . In 1989 he went to New Zealand and became director of the newly established Office of Tourism and Sport . He left this post after a year and returned to Australia. Here he held positions in politics and the tourism industry, including at Tourism Australia , which under him with the slogan Where the bloody hell are you? ( German  Where the hell are you or are you? ) advertised for tourists.

politics

Morrison belongs to the moderate spectrum of the Liberal Party . He is considered a pragmatist, but takes a clearly conservative position on individual issues. In Australian migration and asylum policy , he advocates a tough stop-the-boats line with immigration detention .

minister

Morrison ran in the Cook constituency in the general election in Australia in 2007 , received 58.35% of the vote and became a member of the House of Representatives (the lower house of the Australian Parliament). In 2010 he received 57.88 percent of the vote, in 2013 60.35 percent and in 2016 58.35 percent. In his inaugural address in 2007, he emphasized that with his mandate, the Aborigines of the Gweagal clan from the Dharawal tribe are now represented in parliament with their rights and concerns.

When Tony Abbott became Prime Minister in September 2013, he appointed Morrison Minister for Immigration and Border Protection . Thus the counting operation sovereign borders of his tasks (see also migration and asylum policy in Australia ). Abbott reshuffled his cabinet on December 23, 2014; Morrison was Minister of Social Affairs (Minister for Social Services) and held this office until 21 September 2015. He was then Chancellor of the Exchequer ( treasurer ) of Australia in the government of Malcolm Turnbull . In this capacity, Morrison showed a lump of coal several times in the Australian Parliament in 2017 and said: “This is coal. Don't be afraid of it. It won't harm them. ”By this he wanted to express that Australia's electricity supply would be secured by mining coal deposits. Australia is the second largest coal exporter in the world. He positioned himself against the legalization of same-sex marriage .

Morrison as Prime Minister visits East Timor's President Francisco Guterres (2019)

After opinion polls in mid-2018 (about a year before the parliamentary elections in Australia) showed poor results for the government of incumbent Prime Minister Turnbull, his inner-party critics, especially those in the conservative wing of the Liberal Party , revolted . Under pressure from conservative internal party opponents, Turnbull had to withdraw a draft law under which Australia would have committed itself to reducing its climate-damaging emissions by 25 percent by 2030 (based on the reference year 2005). On August 21, 2018, Turnbull narrowly won an internal party vote against its challenger Peter Dutton . The close result spurred his critics even further, calling for a change in leadership, and on August 24, 2018, Turnbull finally announced his resignation and Morrison was elected Liberal Party's leader. In the Australian Parliament , the party leader of the strongest party holds the post of Prime Minister, which thus fell to Morrison.

prime minister

First term

Morrison's first trip abroad as Prime Minister took him to the Australian-Indonesian Economic Forum in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, where he met with President Joko Widodo and announced a free trade agreement between the states that had already been negotiated under the Turnbull administration.

Morrison considered moving the Australian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in October 2018. He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel the following month, but postponed the transfer of the embassy.

In November 2018, at a meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang , Morrison addressed human rights violations in dealing with the Uyghur minority such as re-education camps in Xinjiang .

In January 2019 there were reports of a photo of the Morrison family in which Ministry employees had used an image editing program to depict Morrison's shoes as two left white sneakers .

In March 2019, Morrison condemned the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch as an "extremist, right-wing violent terrorist attack" and offered the New Zealand authorities cooperation in the investigation. He criticized statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , which he condemned as "ruthless" and "extremely offensive". Erdoğan had distributed a video of the assassin in which he had threatened Australians and New Zealanders that if they came to Turkey with anti-Muslim feelings they would be "sent back in coffins like their grandfathers" based on the battle of Gallipoli in World War I. .

After the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in April 2019, Morrison promised "no special treatment" for him. The matter has nothing to do with Australia, it is a matter of the United States only.

Second term

Morrison led the coalition in Australia's 2019 general election . During the election campaign, media interest fell on Morrison when he greeted a Korean woman with the Chinese phrase ni hao ( German hello ) in Strathfield , a suburb of Sydney with a large proportion of the Korean population . Although Morrison initially faltered in the polls, the coalition was able to win the election with 77 seats (majority of 2 seats).  

Morrison advised Prime Minister Carrie Lam , the 2019 protests in Hong Kong not to move to the vicinity of terrorism.

In September 2019, Morrison became the first Australian Prime Minister since John Howard (2006) to pay an official visit to the United States , with a state dinner at the White House Rose Garden . Morrison saw the "connection" with President Donald Trump as "very easy". The visit was overshadowed by revelations about Morrison's admission of friend and Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston to the Prime Minister's travel delegation.

Morrison was critical of the Turkish military offensive in northern Syria in 2019 . He expressed concern for the security of the Kurds living in the region and saw the operation as a risk of revitalizing the Islamic State .

Morrison, who is considered a climate skeptic , played down the threat posed by climate change and the share of Australian coal in it. He said several times that there was "no credible evidence" of the connection between the climate crisis and the 2019 bushfires . He is considered a supporter of Australia's coal industry and rejects changes to Australia's current climate targets. Political pressure increased on the prime minister as he dodged questions about a link between the government's inaction in combating climate change and the bushfires. Under mounting pressure, Morrison admitted that climate change contributed to the bush fires. At the Pacific Islands Forum in August 2019, leaders of smaller Pacific island states had hoped for a strong message in the final declaration of the consultative forum with a view to climate change, but Morrison only supported it in a weakened form.

At the end of October 2019, Morrison described climate activists as " anarchists ". Progressive forces have set themselves the goal of restricting the freedoms of Australians. It is a "new kind of radical activism" that poses a threat to the future of mining. He called for restrictions on freedom of speech for groups calling for boycotts of service providers for environmentally intensive mining companies. The Australian Human Rights Commission , the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australian Greens condemned Morrison's view as undemocratic; he wanted to silence a social movement calling for Australia to take action against climate change.

Morrison came under further public pressure in December 2019 when he vacationed with his family on the Hawaiian island chain during the Australia-wide bushfires . Awareness of his absence due to vacation caused u. a. Extinction Rebellion's climate activists protested on December 20, 2019 outside Kirribilli House , the Prime Minister's seat in Sydney. Morrison later apologized for the "trouble his vacation was causing many Australians" and traveled back to Sydney. Numerous media had their headlines based on the tourism slogan with ScoMo, Where the Bloody Hell Are You? ( ScoMo, where the hell are you? ) Titled. Morrison was further criticized for refusing compensation for loss of income to volunteer firefighters on duty. In New South Wales alone, 90 percent of the fire services are volunteers. He later gave in and agreed to compensation. Volunteers can now receive A $ 300 tax-free per day up to a total of A $ 6000 under certain conditions.

On January 5, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a National Bushfire Recovery Agency , a federal agency charged with helping those affected by the bushfires. The organization will initially have a budget of A $ 2 billion and be under the direction of former Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Andrew Colvin. The announcement of the new agency was accompanied by a video posted on social media by Morrison's office. It detailed the government's response to the fires, including funding for fire-fighting equipment. Parodies of the video were quickly making the rounds on social media, with many criticizing the release as a political advertisement at a time when firefighters were on the fire front ahead of one of the most dangerous days.

After the forced draft of 3,000 reservists (the largest in Australian history) to support the fire services, Morrison was again heavily criticized because the mobilization was not coordinated with the country's fire services. Soon after, Morrison posted a video on behalf of the Liberal Party about the use of military personnel and equipment in response to the bushfires, which was widely criticized as inappropriate and out of date political advertisements.

The Liberal Party received further criticism for a donation button on its website that incorrectly led to a party's donation page instead of the Bushfire Aid website; the button was later removed.

While visiting the fire- ravaged town of Cobargo , New South Wales, Morrison tried to shake hands with two local residents, who refused to take his outstretched hand. Morrison has been criticized for taking hands and then shaking them against her will. During this visit, Morrison was also verbally abused by some of the residents.

In several of the country's major cities, demonstrations with several thousand participants took place on January 10th against the government's coal-friendly course. In interviews, Morrison said he was “disappointed” that climate policy and the bushfires would be “thrown together” in the public debate. "We don't want goals and targets that destroy or damage jobs and the economy," said Morrison. He found the accusation that someone's climate policy had directly contributed to one of these fire incidents "simply ridiculous" and "absurd".

In the first public opinion poll in January 2020, Morrison lost massive voter support and was overtaken as preferred prime minister by Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party . In an interview on Jan. 12, Morrison said that Australians now expected the federal government and defense forces to respond more directly to national emergencies. He also promised a commission of inquiry ( Royal Commission ), which should consider a connection between the fires and climate change and the interaction between the states, in order to formulate a long-term strategy for the threat of further catastrophic fires. It is "undisputed" that climate change is causing "longer, hotter, drier summers," but he still refused to raise his government's targets for carbon emissions reduction by 26–28 percent compared to 2005-2030 levels. The cabinet and its government will continue to develop existing measures to achieve or exceed these goals.

Religious attitude

Scott Morrison grew up in his family according to the rules of the Uniting Church in Australia . He later became a supporter of the Pentecostal movement and is now close to the Horizon Church, which is part of the Pentecostal movement . Morrison emphasized that he had a strong belief, which was also shown in the fact that the couple's desire to have children with in vitro fertilization had been fulfilled after years of unsuccessful attempts. The first daughter was born after 18 years of marriage.

Web links

Commons : Scott Morrison  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Examples are:
    Alicia Vrajlal: As Bushfires Rage On, Climate Protesters Ask Scott Morrison: 'Where The Bloody Hell Are You'. In: Huffpost on December 19, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
    Where The Bloody Hell Is ScoMo? In: Sunrise, Seven Network, December 17, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
    Arden Dier: ScoMo, Where the Bloody Hell Are You? In: newser.com from December 20, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
    Tom McIlroy: "Where the bloody hell are you?": Lara Worthington slams PM's holiday. In: The Australian Financial Review of December 18, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull resigns. In: Zeit Online from August 24, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ Scott Morrison sworn in as the new Australian Prime Minister. In: faz.net of August 24, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019.
  4. ^ Right-wing conservative government wins parliamentary elections. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 18, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019
  5. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel of August 25, 2018, p. 6.
  6. ↑ a b Deborah Snow: Scott Morrison's relentless rise to power. In: The Sydney Morning Herald, April 29, 2016, accessed December 31, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c d Nick Bryant: Scott Morrison: So Who the Bloody Hell Are You? In: The Monthly of February 2012, accessed December 31, 2019.
  8. ^ A b c Scott Morrison is new Australian PM as Malcolm Turnbull ousted. In: British Broadcasting Corporation on August 24, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019.
  9. ↑ Official election results. In: Tally Room Archive, results.aec.gov.au, accessed December 31, 2019.
  10. ↑ Kurt Stukenberg: betrayal of the population. In: Der Spiegel from January 5, 2020.
  11. ^ Fact checking Scott Morrisons' General Assembly Speech. In: climatecouncil.org.au from 2017, accessed December 31, 2019.
  12. ↑ Anja Hilkemeijer, Brendan Gogarty: Conservative amendments to same-sex marriage bill would make Australia's laws the world's weakest. In: The Conversation of November 26, 2017.
  13. ↑ Malcolm Turnbull. Under-pressure Australia PM drops climate policy. In: British Broadcasting Corporation on May 20, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019.
  14. ^ Scott Morrison's foreign affairs foray follows predecessors' familiar flightpath. In: ABC News of August 30, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019.
  15. ↑ Katharine Murphy, Michael McGowan, Anne Davies: Jerusalem embassy move a 'sensible' proposal, says Scott Morrison. In: The Guardian, October 16, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019.
  16. ^ Jade Macmillan: Government recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, embassy to stay put. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation on December 15, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019.
  17. ↑ Morrison pledges no, showboating 'on China. (No longer available online.) In: MSN . November 12, 2018, archived from the original on March 22, 2019 ; accessed on March 24, 2020 (English).
  18. ^ Australia called to act against Chinese detention of Uighurs. In: Al Jazeera of February 11, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  19. ↑ a b c d Rosemay Bolger: From ScoMo's photoshopped shoes to Egg Boy. This was 2019 in Australian politics. In: Special Broadcasting Services of December 25, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  20. ↑ ABC News (Australia): 'We're not just allies': Scott Morrison says Australia grieves with New Zealand on YouTube , August 17, 2017.
  21. ↑ Turkey's Erdogan directs incendiary comments at Australia, New Zealand. In: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on March 20, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  22. ↑ 'Deeply offended' PM demands Turkey's Erdogan withdraws Gallipoli 'coffins' comment In: SBS News of March 20, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  23. ↑ PM says no special treatment for Assange as his legal team vows to fight extradition. In: Special Broadcasting Service of April 11, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  24. ↑ Election 2019. Coalition secures 77 seats as Liberals win Wentworth, Chisholm, Boothby and Bass. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation on May 20, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  25. ↑ Max Koslowski: PM disputes Chinese claim that HK protests showing 'signs of terrorism' In: The Sydney Morning Herald of August 13, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  26. ↑ World reacts to Turkey's military operation in northeast Syria. In: Al Jazeera of October 10, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  27. ↑ a b Australia is experiencing the hottest day in history. In: Spiegel Online from December 18, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  28. ^ Scott Morrison should have gone to hear Greta Thunberg. In: The Sydney Morning Herald, September 26, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  29. ↑ Australia's Prime Minister rejects stricter climate targets. In: Spiegel Online from December 23, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  30. ^ Melissa Clarke: Pacific leaders, Australia agree to disagree about action on climate change. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation on August 16, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  31. ^ Scott Morrison threatens crackdown on protesters who would deny liberty. In: The Guardian, November 1, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019.
  32. ↑ Bushfires in Australia: Firefighters die while extinguishing the fire. In: tagesschau.de from December 20, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  33. ^ Scott Morrison arrives back in Australia after Hawaii trip amid bushfire crisis. In: 9News of December 21, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019.
  34. ↑ Government wants to compensate fire fighters. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of December 29, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2020.
  35. ^ Jade Macmillan: Scott Morrison announces compensation payments for New South Wales volunteer firefighters. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation on December 29, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020.
  36. ↑ Bushfire recovery agency established as Scott Morrison brushes off criticism. In: sbs.com.au of January 5, 2020.
    Alexandra Beech, Stephanie Dalzell, Jack Snape: Bushfire recovery costs start at $ 2 billion but Government assistance can't pay the bills. In: abc.net.au from January 6, 2020.
  37. ^ Will Ziebell: Australian Prime Minister Morrison defends bushfire crisis response. In: Reuters of January 5, 2020.
  38. ↑ NSW, VIC fires: Kevin Rudd says Scott Morrison is unfit to be PM after Liberal party bushfire ad. In: The Sydney Morning Herald of January 5, 2020.
    Katharine Murphy: Scott Morrison's political ad is a bizarre act of self-love as firefighters battle to save Australia. In: The Guardian of January 4, 2020.
  39. ↑ Scott Morrison slammed after tweeting 50-second ad spruiking new bushfire measures. In: news.com.au of January 5, 2020.
  40. ↑ Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been met with hostility and criticism while visiting bushfire victims. In: abc.net.au from January 3, 2020.
  41. ↑ Scott Morrison heckled after he tries to shake hands with bushfire victim in NSW town of Cobargo. In: The Guardian of January 2, 2020.
  42. ^ Scott Morrison rejects criticism of climate policies as MPs call for more action. In: The Guardian of January 10, 2020.
  43. ↑ Prime Minister Scott Morrison argues for 'comprehensive' inquiry into bushfire crisis. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation January 10, 2020.
  44. ↑ Scott Morrison suffers blow to personal approval rating in the first poll of 2020. In: The Guardian of January 13, 2020.
  45. ^ Scott Morrison talks of going 'even further' on emissions in response to fires. In: The Sydney Morning Herald of January 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Morrison, Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrison, Scott John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian Liberal Party of Australia politician and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Waverley , New South Wales