Scott Morrison

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

‘Stop looking the other way’: Morrison tells Albanese to back Japan

Former prime minister Scott Morrison wants Australia to support Japan and its first female leader Sanae Takaichi against the threat of a vicious China campaign regarding Taiwan

Elizabeth Pike and Joe Kelly

COMMENTARYNation

Morrison’s net zero is gone. Ley’s Libs must sell this new policy hard

Scott Morrison panicked and signed on to an unworkable and economically harmful promise. The prospect of gaining a marketing edge proved to be irresistible for ScoMo.

Judith Sloan

commentaryCommentary

Liberals’ net-zero showdown now a question of survival

If Labor can dump the first female prime minister, then the Liberals can surely dump anyone driving them off a cliff, wearing high heels or not.

Peta Credlin

commentaryCommentary

Libs risk act of folly and self-harm on net zero

What does the ­future hold? Is it ditching net zero and telling Middle Australia it must turn the clock back 20 years on climate policy?

Paul Kelly

LettersLetters

Aim to be energy-lucky country, not economic wasteland

Australia’s climate goals should be aspirational and not locked into short-term political targets.

Former PM’s interventionPolitics

Net zero at any cost ‘not policy, just ideology’: Morrison

Amid ongoing divisions inside the Coalition over whether to dump or update the policy, Scott Morrison has outlined a ‘sensible approach’ for the Liberals and Nationals.

Geoff Chambers and Greg Brown

ExclusivePolitics

‘Terrible cost for the world’: Taiwan must not fall, warns Morrison

Scott Morrison has warned abandoning Taiwan would be ‘appeasement’, urging Western nations to boost military spending while Donald Trump’s presence deters Chinese invasion.

Ben Packham and Joe Kelly

commentaryMedia

News media’s quiet support for Xi’s China

Much of the left-wing media in Australia quietly prefers Xi to Trump and favours Anthony Albanese’s appeasement of China to Scott Morrison’s more direct approach with the Asian superpower.

Chris Mitchell

FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

Why the LNP is spying on its own

A one-time political staffer to Scott Morrison has been hired to dig up dirt for Queensland’s Liberal National Party.

Sarah Elks and Michael McKenna

exclusivePolitics

Morrison issues new Beijing warning after Twiggy praises Xi’s China

Scott Morrison and billionaire Andrew Forrest have engaged in a stunning war of words over China, with the former PM saying the Chinese Communist Party will be pleased with the Fortescue chairman’s attacks on his Liberal government’s handling of Beijing.

Paul Garvey and Joe Kelly

newsNewsWire

‘Charm’: Warning after Albo’s China jaunt

Just days after Anthony Albanese returned from a lengthy state visit to China, his predecessor has dropped an ominous warning.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

Congressional hearingWorld

Presidential contender urges US-Australia coalition to counter China

Appearing alongside Scott Morrison, Rahm Emanuel made the case for the US to lead a strong ‘anti-coercion coalition’ along with allies like Australia to counter Beijing’s growing influence.

Joe Kelly

AllianceDefence

US congress backs AUKUS as key China deterrent

The leaders of the US house select committee on the CCP have delivered a strong endorsement of AUKUS ahead of testimony on the security agreement from Scott Morrison.

Joe Kelly

EditorialEditorials

China cannot change who we are

The Prime Minister must devote more time and effort to the US relationship. Regardless of Australia’s current warmer relationship with China, the latter’s strategic ambitions in Asia are fundamentally different from Australia’s view.

Editorial

EXCLUSIVENation

‘Beware of bully Xi Jinping’s strategy of flattery’: Morrison

Scott Morrison says China is ‘charming and flattering’ Anthony Albanese in an attempt to isolate Australia from the US, arguing a change in approach from Beijing did not alter its underlying motives to ‘block out rivals’.

Sarah Ison and Greg Sheridan

exclusiveNation

Scott Morrison’s appeal to Trump on AUKUS

Scott Morrison says Anthony Albanese needs to provide incentives for Donald Trump to take ownership of AUKUS to secure its future.

Simon Benson

commentaryCommentary

Morrison gong drags our Covid shame back into spotlight

Why would talented workers and global businesses invest in Australia given the chance they’ll be locked down for hundreds of days when the next virus emerges?

Adam Creighton

Politics NowPolitics

Albanese yet to secure meeting with Trump amid AUKUS review

The Prime Minister is facing calls to immediately lock in a discussion with the US President at next week’s G7, as the US reviews the security pact. 

Sarah Ison, Rhiannon Down and Noah Yim

newsNewsWire

Ley to do one thing Dutton wouldn’t

Sussan Ley is set to make her first major address as opposition leader in a move she’s hoping will set her apart from her predecessor Peter Dutton.

Jessica Wang

EditorialEditorials

Honouring diverse achievements

Each recipient of a King’s Birthday honour has a story to tell.

Editorial

newsNewsWire

Scomo tops list for ‘highest honour’

Australia’s 30th Prime Minister has been given the top honour in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.

Jessica Wang

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Morrison says Labor’s weaponisation of Higgins a ‘new low mark’

Scott Morrison reflects on Labor’s weaponisation of events during his tenure as PM, including natural disasters, Covid and sexual assault allegations made by Brittany Higgins, after being awarded a King’s Birthday honours gong.

Geoff Chambers

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

No regrets for Morrison over Covid pandemic era decisions

Scott Morrison has called out blanket vaccine mandates and school closures during the pandemic and backed measures that ensured the economy ‘rocketed out the other side of Covid’.

Geoff Chambers

NEWSNewsWire

‘Space’: Grim warning on modern warfare

A former prime minister is urging Australia to look to space, warning the country’s foes are developing hi-tech weapons for the “fighting domain”.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

new front lineDefence

AUKUS in space: Morrison proposes ‘Pillar 3’ for pact

Scott Morrison has proposed expanding the AUKUS security partnership through a ‘Pillar 3’ initiative that he says will enhance deterrence and make Australia a more valuable ally.

Joe Kelly

ANALYSISTechnology

Dutton’s woeful social media election campaign exposed

Did the Liberal Party think hiring the same digital agency that helped propel Scott Morrison to his ‘miracle’ election win would work similar magic?

Joseph Carbone

ReferendumIndigenous

Morrison, Dutton ‘deliberately ignored advice to back voice’

A longtime Coalition pollster has backed Noel Pearson’s claim that Scott Morrison and then Peter Dutton disregarded data showing the Indigenous voice was good politics for the ­Liberals.

Paige Taylor

ExclusiveBusiness

Revealed: Labor’s consultants bill equivalent to Morrison’s spending

Anthony Albanese spends as much as Scott Morrison on the services of KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte, according to new analysis. Meanwhile, little known Nous is stirring up the incumbents carving out a steady pot of fee-rich work.

Tansy Harcourt

PlacardsPolitics

Labor targets Chinese voters with ‘Morrison memo’

Chinese-language signs tie Peter Dutton and the Liberal candidate for Tangney to Scott Morrison, who had a fractious relationship with China and parts of the Chinese community.

Paul Garvey

religionPolitics

Dutton looks for a Morrison-like election miracle

Dubbed the biggest annual gathering of Good Friday worshippers in Australia, Peter Dutton sat with an unpopular former PM who nonetheless knows what it takes to deliver an election ‘miracle’.

Greg Brown

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