#ScottmorrisonMP will go down as the most despised and pathetic PM in our history. Absolutely disgusting and shameful. The Australian people need to stand together and demand he be removed! It's just one #rort after another.. A bit of history for you all
Before he entered parliament in 2007, he was relatively unknown, fulfilling positions in Liberal Party-aligned sectors, such as a research manager for the Property Council of Australia at the age of 22 (from 1989–95), a range of positions in the tourism industry
(the Tourism Council of Australia, the Office of Tourism and Sport in New Zealand), before becoming the state director of the NSW branch of the Liberal Party in 2000.
He headed Tourism Australia in 2004, but was sacked by the then Minister for Tourism, Fran Bailey, after only 18 months in the position. The full reasons for Morrison’s termination have never been fully disclosed
Insiders who worked in the marketing department at the time have mentioned to me that Morrison’s performance was poor, he spent most of his time on Liberal Party business matters, was rarely seen in the office and seemed to do very little work – and then, all of a sudden, he was
gone, his office cleaned out, never to be seen at Tourism Australia again. An auditor–general’s report from that time – buried for 10 years somewhere in the Australian National Audit Office – found there were many serious issues with the governance at Tourism Australia,
little documentation for contracts worth millions of dollars that were going out to companies with links to the Liberal Party, and a failure to disclose those contracts publicly.
In July 2007, Morrison contested the preselection contest against Michael Towke, a far more credentialed candidate. Towke at the time was 34 years old, had acquired degrees in engineering and sociology, a masters in business administration, volunteered for the St Vincent de Paul
Society, a long-term member of the Liberal Party, and resident of the Shire region for over a decade. Morrison, on the other hand, had a degree in economic geography.The result was the expected outcome between two candidates with such a wide degree of abilities:
Morrison lost the vote by 74 votes, gathering only eight votes, while Towke gained 82. Dissatisfied with the result and believing Towke’s Lebanese background would seriously harm the party’s chance of holding onto the seat of Cook, just three years after the 2014 Cronulla race
riots, Morrison swung into action. He called on his connections within the hard right faction of the Liberal Party, and disseminated smears about Towke to News Limited – claiming Towke was serial liar, he was facing jail, and involved in branch stacking.
The Daily Telegraph duly published the material, seriously damaging Towke’s character. The result in the preselection contest? The vote was annulled, a second ballot was ordered by the state executive of the Liberal Party, subsequently won by Morrison. And what of the allegations
made against Towke? Many years later, all of the published allegations were found to be untrue in court, and defamation was settled with a payment by News Limited to Towke. But this was far too late, Morrison had already been elected to parliament.
This does show that Morrison, like his Liberal predecessors, former Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott, will go to any lengths, and crawl to any depths to score political points, seek advantage, and gain votes. It’s the worst skill that any politician can have.
