Why Scott Morrison Deserves His King’s Birthday Award!
It’s a pity that Malcolm Turnbull abolished the knighthoods that Tony Abbott had reinstated. While the Companion of the Order of Australia is now the highest honour, it just doesn’t roll of the tongue like a “sir” or “dame” does. I’m sure that most people wouldn’t know whether an Officer of the Order of Australia is higher than a Member of the Order of Australia or whether it just sounds like it should be. Still, the whole thing had to be scrapped after Tony confused us and led to new demands for a republic once it was unclear whether we should be address the Queen’s hubby as “Sir Prince Philip”or “Prince Sir Philip”.
Whatever, the recent honour to Companion Scott Morrison has stirred up a bit of controversy with people asking why on earth does he deserve one? But let me be clear, if any recent PM deserves to go down on one knee while someone waves a sword above his head, it’s that man.
Let me just make the case here:
As Immigration Minister, Morrison announced that he’d be holding weekly briefings where he’d give an update on how it wasn’t in the national interest to tell us about things that were happening “on water” and that “operational matters” would be kept from us. This remained the policy right up until the 2022 election day when thousands of text messages were sent to tell us that about a boat that was arriving.
As Social Services Minister he was responsible for one of the most successful debt recovery schemes ever. While most debt recovery schemes only recover a fraction of the money owed, Robodebt, as it become known, managed to recover some money that wasn’t even owed. One of the beauties of the scheme was that it wasn’t actually called Robodebt by the department so that any questions about the scheme in Parliament could be answered with until you know the name, you won’t get an answer because nothing like that exists. Nobody thought of trying the name “Rumpelstilskin” but that probably wouldn’t have got answers either.
Morrison was a strong performer in the portfolio, leading to speculation that he was after the Treasury portfolio. He continued to deny this until he became Treasurer.
Morrison was saved from certain defeat in the 2019 election thanks to a miracle. He said so himself, so any thought that it was clever spin and misleading propaganda about franking credits and electric vehicles is just wrong. While many politicians would have tried to take the credit and claimed that they deserved to win, Scotty was more than happy to tell us all that him winning was a miracle. This demonstrates the sort of humility that is all too rare in politics and was certainly the last time he admitted that there was no way that he deserved to win.
Thanks to his victory, rather than having a scheme which would have grandfathered negative gearing for exisiting properties and encouraged the building of new dwellings, we had a scheme which really only subsidised existing homeowners to renovate. If you look at the figures, it was virtually impossible for anyone to qualify and build a new house for the amount of money the government was offering.
While so many politicians get in the way during a national disaster and insist on visiting, walking around and having the press take photos of them getting in the way, Morrison scooted off on a family holiday. He tried to make this less of a distraction by not telling anyone about it but, unfortunately, someone forgot to take in his bin and this led to questions about where he was, leading to his office telling people that they didn’t know but he certainly wasn’t on holiday in Hawaii, before later clarifying that this should have, in fact, been that he was.
After this embarrassing mistake by his office, some politicians would have sort to downplay things or to blame some underling. Morrison could have even argued that he was reprising his successful “Where the bloody hell are you” campaign from his time at Tourism Australia, but no, Scott understood what people wanted and, after explaining that he didn’t know how to hold a hose, went to shake hands with the people affected by the bushfires. He then spent a few hours comforting people and shaking their hands because that’s what Australia wanted, even if the people whose hands he grabbed didn’t always agree to it.
Who can forget his leadership during Covid when he announced that he was going to the football because of his passion for the Sharks and because it might be the last football game he’d get to see for a very long time. Of course, his leadership didn’t end there… which some have argued was unfortunate.
When accused of being slow off the mark in ordering Covid vaccinations, Morrison pointed out to people that it wasn’t a race and you didn’t need to rush into getting one and that we’d all get one in good time and that the first ones needed to go to the people who needed it most like old people and politicians.
Having learned the lessons of Robodebt where people were upset at having to pay back money they didn’t owe, Morrison and his Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, decided that they could give money to businesses to help them survive a profit downturn thanks to lockdowns and that the businesses wouldn’t need to pay it back if they continued to make a profit.
And, finally, his crowning achievement: AUKUS where instead of paying the French a large amount of money for to adapt nuclear submarines so that they were non-nuclear, we gave them a large amount of money to stop doing that, and changed our order to nuclear which we would get from the USA… or the UK… or maybe not at all. Whatever, it was a much better deal to not get our submarines from someone who was going to not give us nuclear submarines than to pay someone to give us submarines that weren’t nuclear.
As you can see, Scott Morrison’s achievements were far greater than most people remember. And I can say that, if that’s what it takes to get a King’s Birthday honour then I don’t deserve one and neither do you. Congratulations!
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We must respect the decision of Jehovah, who personally selected Scummo for this honor.
Snot Morrison, a lazy dodgy dud, has received an award, and for what? He remains an emblem of a healthy dog's effectively working ring, leaving behind memories. Careful...
Scummo (seen in the photo within the 10.33 am piece excitedly giving The Donald a hand job) seems a little desperate to keep his super-dooper sub brain fart afloat (awful pun intended) because he needs one, just one, legacy to tell his kids about.
Come on Labor, put the gigantic sub rort out of our misery. Tell the Yanks where to sick their subs, one up Scummo's arse and rest up The Donalds. I get the feeling that the "investigation" is just going to be a stunt to see if they strongarm us for even more money.
My God, fancy ANYONE with any level of compassion, integrity or an IQ ranging into double figures, nominating a cold-blooded, racist, unconscionably callous, misogynistic political psychopath like Morrison to receive such an undeserved honour! WTF! On what level is it, in any way, appropriate to hand over such an honour to a man who has NONE? This is the reprehensible coward who, during Australia's WORST bush fires, refused to offer any assistance to our embattled, brave fire fighters and smugly said "I don't hold a hose!" WOW! And THIS is the type of gutless, self-serving psychopath we want to hand an Order of Australia to, REALLY ???
Name one thing - ONE. SINGLE. THING - that Morrison has EVER DONE in his long, ignominious career as a non-achieving political parasite sucking up a totally undeserved, privileged lifestyle from the hard-earned taxpayer purse, that has provided ANY benefit, whatsoever, to working- or middle-class Australians?
I challenge ANYONE out there to name ONE. SINGLE. THING !! The answer is ZERO, nada, NOTHING except to bring misery into the lives of the poorest most vulnerable people in our community. The Trump-loving Morrison has SO MUCH in common with his "hero" - a cold-blooded, chest-beating, non-achieving, megalomaniacal psychopath; a rusted-on misogynist who, like Abbott, displays an appalling contempt for women who, in addition, is a callously inhumane sociopath who tries (and fails) to hide his self-serving depravity and callous disregard for the disadvantaged behind a facade of nauseating bible-thumping hypocrisy as a signed-up member of that paedophile-protecting CULT of Hillsong!
There is nothing good - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING admirable - one can find to say about Morrison (or Abbott). They are both the WORST, most callous, dysfunctional, totally corrupt and self-serving fascists in our nation's history. Indeed, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, was 100% correct when he astutely called Morrison a pathological liar! Morrison was, in fact, a notorious self-serving fascist who showed such a contempt for our democracy, he, with considerable assistance from David Hurley - truly the worst, most corrupt and easily manipulated governor general in our nation's history - attempted to surreptitiously take over at least FIVE political portfolios in order to rule over us like some third-world dictator (see link below).
Morrison, like so many other useless self-serving political psychopaths in the LNP, achieved NOTHING for Australia EXCEPT to bring shame and disrepute upon our wonderful egalitarian nation! To hand that reprehensible, soulless, inhumane bible-thumping hypocrite, Morrison - who remains one of the worst, most internationally reviled political psychopaths in Australia's history - such an honour is absolutely HORRENDOUS and, indeed, brings SHAME upon our nation! WTF are they thinking? If you wrote the names of every politician in the ALP or The Greens, put those names on a list, blind-folded yourself and shot an arrow at that list, it would land on someone, ANYONE who was far, far better, more qualified and more deserving to receive such an honour than the reprehensible, totally corrupt and thoroughly malignant Scott Morrison!
Agree GL,the maniac Trumpster will view this as an opportunity to extort more loot.Golden chance for Albanese to get us out of this Morrison trap....if he has the guts.
Moving Marles into the Ministry for land fill would be the icing on the cake.He could trade in his commonwealth car on a shiny new bulldozer.
The only hing that I am a little unsure about is whether the AC will bw preceded by "LiarfromtheShire", "Scottyfromadvertising" or "Scummo"
Harry,
I reckon they should take a page from THHGttG (slightly paraphrased) and lay Marles on the ground in front of the bulldozer and,
""Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Marles.
"None at all," said Mr. Prosser."
And then run him over to prove the point.
Morrison is in a class of 'better than every one else'... the definition of better being applied by none other than Morrison himself.
Most Aussies are a little more humble than that and will not be awarded such a useless gong as the now forever devalued Order of Oz or what ever.
Such scum invariably floats to the top whilst the rest of us push on 'under turd'.
‘Honestly delusional’ shrieks the SMH headline as Morrison has a spray at the critics of AUKUS.
A bit rich, coming from the man who said the eagle in the photograph spoke to him, or that God called him to do his mission, or that his surreptitious laying of hands on people was an act of channelling God's healing, or that secretly appointing himself to head up five ministries was an okay thing to do, or that lying, repeatedly, compulsively, was acceptable as the prime minister of this country.
Maybe I'm wrong, and the AUKUS squawkus is a rational response to a cherished position, or perhaps, in terms of language employed, it's classic projection from a seriously deluded individual.
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We must respect the decision of Jehovah, who personally selected Scummo for this honor.
Snot Morrison, a lazy dodgy dud, has received an award, and for what? He remains an emblem of a healthy dog's effectively working ring, leaving behind memories. Careful...
Scummo (seen in the photo within the 10.33 am piece excitedly giving The Donald a hand job) seems a little desperate to keep his super-dooper sub brain fart afloat (awful pun intended) because he needs one, just one, legacy to tell his kids about.
@10.33
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/12/australia-news-live-productivity-ai-job-cuts-aukus-defence-pact-review-anthony-albanese-richard-marles-submarines-ntwnfb
Come on Labor, put the gigantic sub rort out of our misery. Tell the Yanks where to sick their subs, one up Scummo's arse and rest up The Donalds. I get the feeling that the "investigation" is just going to be a stunt to see if they strongarm us for even more money.
My God, fancy ANYONE with any level of compassion, integrity or an IQ ranging into double figures, nominating a cold-blooded, racist, unconscionably callous, misogynistic political psychopath like Morrison to receive such an undeserved honour! WTF! On what level is it, in any way, appropriate to hand over such an honour to a man who has NONE? This is the reprehensible coward who, during Australia's WORST bush fires, refused to offer any assistance to our embattled, brave fire fighters and smugly said "I don't hold a hose!" WOW! And THIS is the type of gutless, self-serving psychopath we want to hand an Order of Australia to, REALLY ???
Name one thing - ONE. SINGLE. THING - that Morrison has EVER DONE in his long, ignominious career as a non-achieving political parasite sucking up a totally undeserved, privileged lifestyle from the hard-earned taxpayer purse, that has provided ANY benefit, whatsoever, to working- or middle-class Australians?
I challenge ANYONE out there to name ONE. SINGLE. THING !! The answer is ZERO, nada, NOTHING except to bring misery into the lives of the poorest most vulnerable people in our community. The Trump-loving Morrison has SO MUCH in common with his "hero" - a cold-blooded, chest-beating, non-achieving, megalomaniacal psychopath; a rusted-on misogynist who, like Abbott, displays an appalling contempt for women who, in addition, is a callously inhumane sociopath who tries (and fails) to hide his self-serving depravity and callous disregard for the disadvantaged behind a facade of nauseating bible-thumping hypocrisy as a signed-up member of that paedophile-protecting CULT of Hillsong!
There is nothing good - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING admirable - one can find to say about Morrison (or Abbott). They are both the WORST, most callous, dysfunctional, totally corrupt and self-serving fascists in our nation's history. Indeed, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, was 100% correct when he astutely called Morrison a pathological liar! Morrison was, in fact, a notorious self-serving fascist who showed such a contempt for our democracy, he, with considerable assistance from David Hurley - truly the worst, most corrupt and easily manipulated governor general in our nation's history - attempted to surreptitiously take over at least FIVE political portfolios in order to rule over us like some third-world dictator (see link below).
Morrison, like so many other useless self-serving political psychopaths in the LNP, achieved NOTHING for Australia EXCEPT to bring shame and disrepute upon our wonderful egalitarian nation! To hand that reprehensible, soulless, inhumane bible-thumping hypocrite, Morrison - who remains one of the worst, most internationally reviled political psychopaths in Australia's history - such an honour is absolutely HORRENDOUS and, indeed, brings SHAME upon our nation! WTF are they thinking? If you wrote the names of every politician in the ALP or The Greens, put those names on a list, blind-folded yourself and shot an arrow at that list, it would land on someone, ANYONE who was far, far better, more qualified and more deserving to receive such an honour than the reprehensible, totally corrupt and thoroughly malignant Scott Morrison!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison_ministerial_positions_controversy#:~:text=Following%20the%202022%20Australian%20federal,public%20or%20his%20own%20government.
Agree GL,the maniac Trumpster will view this as an opportunity to extort more loot.Golden chance for Albanese to get us out of this Morrison trap....if he has the guts.
Moving Marles into the Ministry for land fill would be the icing on the cake.He could trade in his commonwealth car on a shiny new bulldozer.
The only hing that I am a little unsure about is whether the AC will bw preceded by "LiarfromtheShire", "Scottyfromadvertising" or "Scummo"
Harry,
I reckon they should take a page from THHGttG (slightly paraphrased) and lay Marles on the ground in front of the bulldozer and,
""Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Marles.
"None at all," said Mr. Prosser."
And then run him over to prove the point.
Morrison is in a class of 'better than every one else'... the definition of better being applied by none other than Morrison himself.
Most Aussies are a little more humble than that and will not be awarded such a useless gong as the now forever devalued Order of Oz or what ever.
Such scum invariably floats to the top whilst the rest of us push on 'under turd'.
‘Honestly delusional’ shrieks the SMH headline as Morrison has a spray at the critics of AUKUS.
A bit rich, coming from the man who said the eagle in the photograph spoke to him, or that God called him to do his mission, or that his surreptitious laying of hands on people was an act of channelling God's healing, or that secretly appointing himself to head up five ministries was an okay thing to do, or that lying, repeatedly, compulsively, was acceptable as the prime minister of this country.
Maybe I'm wrong, and the AUKUS squawkus is a rational response to a cherished position, or perhaps, in terms of language employed, it's classic projection from a seriously deluded individual.