The paradox of “psycho” Morrison

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It is a fond farewell to one of Australia’s greatest PMs:

Scott Morrison has left politics to join a set of strategic and defence firms with two Trump-era politicians.

…The former PM will leave parliament at the end of February to take on a new role as vice-chair of security firm American Global Strategies, headed by former Trump security adviser Robert O’Brien, per The Australian.

He will also become a strategic adviser to asset management firm DYNE — a role that will also be performed by former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo.

As the disgraced NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian put it so succinctly, Morrison was a “complete psycho” PM.

He had no scruples, ruled by division with a cult-like hunger for power, and presided over catastrophic political blundering.

Yet these same traits served Australia brilliantly during its great post-COVID China reset.

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Through various points of contact, Morrison so deranged the CCP and Xi Jinping that they accidentally divulged the actual plan for Australia in the 14 conditions to end democracy.

Having achieved this outstanding feat, mainly by force of personality disorder, Morrison launched an Australian tirade into the great forums of free world governance, playing a critical role in the historical pivot of the liberal world away from China.

All this while a whining Labor opposition broke the compact of foreign policy bipartisanship and sided with Beijing.

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Arguably, no more important contribution to the Australian way of life has been made by any PM since World War II.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.