Meet Australia’s new ‘first lady’, Jenny Morrison

THE Prime Minister’s wife is likely to take a more down-to-earth approach than her high-flying predecessor Lucy Turnbull. The netball mum-in-chief is described as a “delightful person who keeps a low profile”. But who is Jenny Morrison?

NETBALL mum-in-chief Jenny Morrison is Australia’s new first lady, who married her childhood sweetheart and paused her career to raise their “miracle’’ babies.

The Prime Minister’s wife is likely to take a more down-to-earth approach than her high-flying predecessor Lucy Turnbull, a former Sydney Lord Mayor and prominent businesswoman.

“Jenny’s a delightful person who keeps a low profile,’’ one associate said yesterday.

“She’s chatty, she’s always pleasant — she’s a very down-to-earth person.’’

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison poses with his wife Jenny Morrison and their daughters after being sworn in on Friday. Picture: Martin Ollman/Getty Images

Mrs Morrison, 49, is a registered nurse who worked in a childcare centre before the birth of Abbey, 11, and Lily, 9.

Her husband has spoken about the couple’s struggle to have a family through IVF before their “miracle children” were conceived naturally.

The childhood sweethearts met at Sydney’s Luna Park when they were both 12 and again at a Christian youth camp the following year.

Scott Morrison and wife Jenny pictured earlier this year. Picture: Kym Smith

Scott plucked up the courage to ask for her number, then waited four years to ask her out.

The pair began dating at 16 and married at 21.

Their first child was born after what Mr Morrison has described as “14 years of bitter disappointments” through IVF.

Mrs Morrison was 39 and had lost hope of having a family, telling The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2015 that she was “very sad she couldn’t have children”.

But then, she said, she “just got on with the journey and that was a turning point”.

In his maiden speech to Parliament on Valentine’s Day in 2008, Mr Morrison praised her “generous, selfless and caring nature’’.

He has also joked that “Jen is a much better driver than me’’, after his car rolled down a hill when he forgot to apply the handbrake in 2016.

The Morrisons. Jenny has said how she had lost hope before finally becoming pregnant thanks to IVF at 39.

Mrs Morrison has joked about her husband’s “hilarious’’ devotion to “cooking from scratch”.

The couple shared their affection for each other on Facebook when Mr Morrison — then the Treasurer — took time out from Federal Budget preparations to tell followers that he was “missing Jenny and the girls”.

Jenny Morrison with her husband Scott. Picture: Ray Strange.

The couple pictured in 2015. Picture: Gary Ramage

His wife sent back a message embellished with love hearts: “Miss u too Scott Morrison.”

Mrs Morrison’s older brother, fireman Garry Warren, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999.

His plight inspired Mr Morrison’s support for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which he mentioned as a priority during his first press conference as PM on Friday.

The Morrisons belong to a Pentecostal church and enjoy cheering their daughters at weekend netball games in the Sutherland shire, in Sydney’s south, where Mrs Morrison grew up.