Scott Morrison reveals his new job working alongside an ex-CIA director after quitting as an MP
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed he will be taking a new job alongside ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo.
The 55-year-old, who retired as an MP on Tuesday, will become vice chairman of American Global Strategies, which was co-founded and chaired by Robert O’Brien, who served as national security adviser to US President Donald Trump. 2019 – 2021.
On its website, the company advertises itself as ‘a boutique strategic consultancy that looks beyond current events’.
Mr Morrison told it The Australian he will also take on a role as strategic advisor to DYNE Maritime, an Australian-founded, US-based venture capital firm investing in technologies related to the AUKUS Pact.
Scott Morrison is pictured with his wife Jenny Morrison and their children Lily and Abbey
Mike Pompeo (left) and Robert O’Brien (right) walk together in 2020, when both were serving the Trump administration
The pact, which will supply US nuclear submarines to Australia with American and British support, was negotiated by Morrison and ultimately ratified by his successor Anthony Albanese.
Former Secretary of State Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo ccurrently works as a strategic advisor for DYNE Maritime.
Morrison has been on the backbench since the Coalition lost the 2022 federal election to Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party.
He revealed he will leave politics in February to “take on new challenges in global business and spend more time with my family.”
The ABC reported that Mr Morrison’s new role is likely to be based in the US.
He has already written a memoir aimed at the Christian market for an American publisher.
“By giving advance notice of my intention to leave Parliament… this will give my party sufficient time to select a great new candidate who I know will do what is best for our community and that new will bring energy and dedication to the job,” he said. .
Scott Morrison will resign from politics less than two years after being voted out as prime minister
Former US Vice President Mike Pence, who like Mr Morrison is a leading Christian, has written the foreword for the book, entitled: Planning for Your Good – A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness.
The 288-page book is said to be “less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement.”
“It was written with a broader audience in mind,” Morrison said last September.
Mr Morrison was elected to federal parliament in Sydney’s southern seat of Cook in 2007 when the Liberal-National coalition lost badly to Labor led by Kevin Rudd.
When the Coalition returned to power in 2013 after two terms in the Labor government, Mr Morrison was appointed Immigration Minister.
He was also responsible for Operation Sovereign Borders. He oversaw the return of asylum seeker boats and reintroduced temporary protection visas that had been scrapped under Labour.
After being widely seen as an effective minister, he was promoted to the Social Services portfolio in late 2014 and then to Treasurer in 2015.
In August 2018, Peter Dutton failed to oust then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in an internal Liberal Party challenge, but came so close that Mr Turnbull stepped aside.
In the second leadership vote that followed, Mr Morrison defeated both Mr Dutton and Julie Bishop to become party leader and prime minister.
Nine months later, in May 2019, he led the Coalition to victory over Bill Shorten’s Labor, winning two seats while the opposition lost one.
Scott Morrison is pictured (center, wearing a blue T-shirt) on vacation in Hawaii while Australia was in a bushfire crisis
Next, Prime Minister Scott Morrison (second from right) is pictured in Hawaii during a controversial vacation he took during a bushfire crisis
He was subsequently declared the ‘Messiah of the Shire’ by the Australian newspaper.
Morrison ran into trouble later that year when he vacationed with his family in Hawaii during a bushfire crisis.
The trip was unannounced and his office initially denied he had gone to Hawaii.
But the holiday could no longer be denied when photos of him in the American island state surfaced on social media.
On December 20, 2019, he released a statement saying, “I deeply regret any wrongdoing.”
Asked why he went on holiday while the country was on fire, Mr Morrison infamously told Sydney radio station 2GB: “I’m not holding a snake mate.”
Then-Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pictured with his wife Jenny Morrison and their children Lily and Abbey in May 2022
When he returned and visited areas devastated by the fires, there were several photos and video clips of people refusing to shake his hand.
Mr Morrison then steered the country through the Covid pandemic, setting up the National Cabinet of Prime Ministers and First Ministers, while his government established the Jobkeeper and Jobseeker economic programmes.
Mr Morrison was Prime Minister from August 24, 2018 to May 30, 2022. Following his election defeat, Mr Morrison revealed he had been secretly sworn into a number of ministerial portfolios during the Covid pandemic – without alerting the public.
In an unprecedented act, Mr Morrison was secretly appointed Health Minister, Finance Minister, Industry Minister, Home Secretary and Treasurer without voters knowing.