Tag: Scott Morrison

Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters he’d made the point ‘which was well received, that Australia is an independent, sovereign nation’.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Though the call between Trump and Morrison does not indicate any Australian government wrongdoing, it shows how the PM’s bromance with the president brings its political embarrassments.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: With Australia-China relations at a low point – due to Australia’s foreign interference legislation, the banning of Huawei from 5G network and other issues – there’s no indication when an invitation might come. Not that the Prime Minister wants to seem anxious.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Trump isn’t the first deeply unpopular president Australia has seen and he won’t be the last.

Scott Morrison stressed this was an international mission, but so far the United Kingdom is the only other country to have signed up.

Scott Morrison describes the “the bacon and eggs principle” where “the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed”.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: In describing his view towards the public service Morrison, who loves a good slogan, has produced a new one, “Respect and expect”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison laying out economic policies “to get Australians off the economic sidelines and on the field again”.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison has proved himself excellent at campaigning. We will find out this term how well he can govern.

SPECIAL FEATURE: It’s possible to overthink Scott Morrison. A long-time associate and friend says “what you see is what you get”.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Despite some tightening on two-party preferred measures, the polls have Labor on track for a win on May 18.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Australian voters really dislike politicians. This is not new – it was there even in colonial times – but it is potent and growing.

Scott Morrison took up Jacinda Ardern’s phrase when she said of Muslims “they are us”, and applied it to Australia.

VIEW FROM THE HILL: Once again, raging energy and climate wars are burning out of control in government ranks.

The government is running its border security/refugees scare against Labor on two fronts.

Scott Morrison faces a major Liberal party crisis after Malcolm Turnbull moved to torpedo the Prime Minister’s plan to protect the preselection of controversial rightwing backbencher Craig Kelly.

VIEW FROM THE HILL: When a prime minister has diminished authority, people don’t bother so much with the niceties.

VIEW FROM THE HILL: A shot was fired across Scott Morrison’s bows to remind him of the challenge of managing a now-hung parliament.

Scott Morrison and foreign affairs minister Marise Payne made a series of major announcements in relation to Israel at a Tuesday news conference.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has abandoned the plan to raise the pension age to 70.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Scott Morrison will need to rely heavily on the experience of his new foreign minister, Marise Payne, and deputy leader, Josh Frydenberg. There is hard work to be done, and little time to do it.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison has been described as relentless, ambitious, and hard-line, although these labels only give us some clues to his personal politics, and ultimately his political agenda.

Morrison has ahead of him the immense challenge of uniting a fractured party. A lot will depend on whether the conservatives undermine him or accept their rout quietly.

WHO WILL BE PM? Legal experts suggest Peter Dutton could be ineligible under the constitution’s section 44 provision on pecuniary interests. Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop join race for prime ministership.

Support for Prime Minister Abbott is slipping away fast, both in and out of the party room. But this time it’s up to Cabinet ministers to make the move.

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison this week announced that most children in immigration detention camps who are under the age of ten, and their families, will be released into the Australian society by the end of this year.

More than four thousand Iraqi and Syrian refugees from war torn Iraq and Syria will be offered refugee status in Australia, confirms immigration minister Scott Morrison.

Australian Immigration and Border Protection offered a group of 157 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers a lifeboat to India.

As Nauru confirms that Angelina Jolie, actress and UN delegate, has received an invitation to visit asylum seekers on the island, Australia's immigration minister Scott Morrison denies concerns over her proposed trip.

A boat carrying 41 asylum seekers was escorted back to Sri Lanka after it was intercepted by Australian border control, infuriating human rights activists who fear for the refugees’ safety in their home country.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison continues to refuse to reveal if an asylum seeker boat, or two, have been intercepted off Christmas Island

The Australians Greens have called on the federal government to lift gag orders on staff at Manus Island detention centre.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is refusing to say if asylum seekers in offshore detention will be strip searched under enhanced security measures.

Protests have erupted in Jakarta as Prime Minister Tony Abbott responds to Indonesia's call to explain the tapping of the president's phone.

People smugglers are reported to be offering to put asylum seekers in shipping containers to get them to Australia or New Zealand.

The federal opposition has questioned a directive that immigration staff refer to boat people as “illegal” arrivals.

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

ELECTION13 | Liberal candidate for Lindsay Fiona Scott has blamed traffic congestion in western Sydney on an influx of asylum seekers under the Labor government.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The Opposition have called on the Rudd government to withdraw advertisements regarding reforms to their asylum seeker policy, which were paid for with public funds.

Less than a week since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his PNG solution the first asylum seekers have arrived on Manus Island for processing.

The Nauru “tent city” solution proposed by the Coalition has been blighted by claims that the visit to the island by Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and a News Corp journalist were sponsored by a private company who may profit from the policy.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has said that elite SAS troops should be sent on-board boats carrying asylum seekers that threaten self-harm in an attempt to be allowed into Australia.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison says the government’s crackdown on 457 visas is not a done deal in parliament.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison was left looking red-faced as a dozen journalists abandoned a press conference he’d called outside Canberra’s Parliament House to chase down Labor rival Joel Fitzgibbon.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has rejected Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s accusation that Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop had “embarrassed the nation” by claiming that the Indonesian government supported the Coalition’s policy to turn back the boats of asylum seekers if elected later this year.