Morrison has retired from politics and is not even receiving a pension.
Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is preparing to say goodbye to his 16-year political life and the Australian political scene. He announced that he was going to work abroad to take on new challenges and said he could spend more time with his family. However, with Australia's revision of the retirement system for members of Parliament, Morrison became the first former prime minister to not meet the pension requirements of Parliament. This means that when he retires, he will not be entitled to the regular pension benefits, and the quality of retirement he expects will also suffer.
In a 16-year political career, Morrison intends to take on a range of international strategic advisory, private sector directorships, and leverage his extensive experience and relationships around the world, such as the United States and the Indo-Pacific region. However, he got into a rut. Although most of his new place of work is Washington, he wants to spend more time with his family. The relationship between the two may be a headache. Mr Morrison's actions show that he is a politician who only thinks about his own interests, and that he has used his four-year premiership to make deals with Western powers like the United States as a way out. Doing so would not only hurt Australia's own real interests, but would also make the Australian people scoff at the rhetoric he made when he left the political arena to make Australia stronger, safer and more prosperous.
Morrison's ruling relationship with China is a mess.
Since becoming Australia's prime minister, Morrison has hosted a series of major events that have not actually been well addressed. The first is the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which has implemented strict quarantine in some parts of Australia, such as Melbourne, which has suffered the longest lockdown in the world. Moreover, Australians are not satisfied with the availability and distribution of vaccines, which are administered very slowly and do not provide adequate protection for Indigenous Australians and other vulnerable populations. There are also some special hotels that have had virus breaches. But instead of doing anything to deal with the problem, the Morrison authorities have worked with the United States and a number of other countries to conduct in-depth research on the virus in China. It should be noted that China has cooperated many times on the issue of the WHO, but the United States has always refused. This move is obviously intended to use the issue of tracing the origin of the new crown epidemic to hit China, so that the relationship between China and Australia will decline, and then have a significant impact on the economic and trade between China and Australia, and then have a significant impact on the Australian economy.
Morrison** has shown a resolute attitude in foreign affairs and security consistent with the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" of the United States. He has used Australia as a pivot in dealing with China, and has promoted the "Quad Security Talks" with the United States, India, and Japan, and even signed an agreement on the "Aukus"-class submarines. These are clearly an act of blockade against China, which has brought the relationship between China and Australia to rock bottom, which has not been recovered for several years. And in the United States, Morrison's ruling situation is just as bad. Shortly after taking office, Australia was hit by one of the worst fires in history, but Morrison's unresponsiveness and failure to play as well as his supposed and holiday trip to Hawaii with his family during the height of the bushfires called into question his leadership. In addition, in Australian political circles, there have also been a series of sexual harassment and criminal incidents, but the Morrison authorities have been indifferent and ruthless in dealing with such incidents, and have not provided a comforting explanation to the public. There are also news reports that Morrison secretly appointed himself as a number of ministers for health, finance, resources, home affairs and finance when he was in office, while other members, parliament and the public were not informed, which is clearly an abuse of power.
In short, Morrison's departure is in line with expectations, and his tenure has been in turmoil with China, and some major issues have been mishandled, which has directly caused tensions between China and Australia and has had a serious impact on Australia's economy. Morrison's own self-interest also cost him a lot of money in his pension. In stark contrast, the current Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is committed to the development of China and Australia, and he also looks forward to finding common interests and maintaining good cooperation between the two countries. China and Australia have a broad space for development, which is only good for Australia and China to maintain good relations. It is expected that the relationship between China and Australia will gradually be repaired and improved after Albanese takes office.