SYDNEY: Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday (Jan 24) stated he was leaving politics to pursue a enterprise profession, calling time on a contentious profession.
The veteran politician introduced he was stepping down as consultant for a Sydney suburb subsequent month, after 16 years in parliament.
Morrison stated he would “tackle new challenges within the world company sector”.
The conservative leader led Australia during the devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic when he shut the nation’s borders to the remainder of the world.
An avid supporter of the fossil gasoline trade, Morrison as soon as introduced a lump of coal into parliament to indicate that lawmakers had nothing to worry from the black flamable rock.
He repeatedly claimed, with out proof, that arson was a much bigger explanation for wildfires than local weather change.
His time in workplace was additionally colored by secrecy.
Morrison angered France when he negotiated a deal behind closed doorways to amass US and British nuclear submarine know-how, cementing an alliance with Washington whereas abruptly ditching a long-standing settlement with Paris.
And he secretly appointed himself to a number of ministerial roles in the course of the COVID-19 disaster, with out informing his cupboard, the incumbents, or the general public.
