Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday that he was leaving the contentious political field to pursue a career in business.
The seasoned congressman announced that beginning next month, he will be stepping down from his role as a representative for a Sydney suburb after 16 years in parliament.
Reportedly, Morrison intended to “take on new challenges in the global corporate sector.”
The country’s borders were closed to the outside world by the conservative leader of Australia amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the disastrous Black Summer bushfires of 2019–2020.
An avid supporter of the fossil fuel industry, Morrison once brought a lump of coal into parliament to show that lawmakers had nothing to fear from the black combustible rock.
He repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that arson was a bigger cause of wildfires than climate change.
His time in office was also coloured by secrecy.
Morrison’s secret talks to obtain US and British nuclear submarine technology infuriated France and solidified ties with Washington while abruptly ending a long-standing accord with Paris.
During the Covid issue, he also quietly nominated himself for a number of ministerial positions, keeping his cabinet, the current ministers, and the general public in the dark.
