So who is Scott Morrison?
Morrison has been representing the NSW electorate of Cook since 2007 for the Liberals.
He served under Abbott as the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (a portfolio that would eventually be passed to Dutton). This portfolio involved the indefinite detention of refugees on Manus and Nauru.
The detention of refugees has been labelled torture and a violation of human rights by the UN
When he was immigration minister he interfered with refugees who were going to get permanent protection visas and asked ASIO to slow down their security checks so he had time to change the legislation to prevent having to grant refugees protection.
He supported Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and said it was a sign that the world was “catching up” with Australia
He used children in detention as bargaining chips to get more political power
Refugees have died under his care from poor medical treatment
A refugee had to tear out his own infected teeth due to poor medical care
The absolute cruelty of Manus and Nauru has led to high rates of depression and self harm.
The Senate gave Scott Morrison unprecedented power over Asylum Seeker’s lives, including the ability to ignore international law, previously agreed human rights obligations, to send Asylum Seekers back to countries where it is known they’ll be tortured even though every other country recognises this as wrong, turn back boats and ignore them, and he could block any protection claim for whatever reason (which he did not need to divulge why) and his decisions couldn’t be challenged.
Outside of harming refugees he’s also been doing some horrible things for Australians:
He wanted to drug test sewage to see if people on welfare were on drugs
He voted no in the plebiscite
He attacked a Muslim child for practicing their religion
He spent millions to erect a statue of James Cook in his own electorate
Scrapped funding for homelessness services
More things that he’s voted on can be found at TheyVoteForYou.org. Here are some examples:
Decreasing availability of welfare
Getting rid of penalty rates (which low income earners need to get by)
Making it harder to get Australian citizenship
Reducing corporate tax rates
Voted against refugee protections
Voted against marine conservation
Voted against a Royal Commission into Violence Against People With Disabilities
Voted against investment into renewable energy (so is weak on climate change)
Voted against protecting the great barrier reef (which is dying from climate change)
Voted against increased media diversity (which suits him fine as the Murdoch media empire is pro-Liberal)
He’s a racist homophobe who attacks the poor. And he’s the 30th Prime Minister of Australia.
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