Editing Morrison Seeks A Second Miracle Election

<br>Scott Morrison is banking on another miracle.<br> <br>In 2019 he pulled off an against-the-odds win, with the Bill Shorten-led Labor team having been long-favoured to unseat his struggling government.<br> <br>He put the narrow victory down to "quiet Australians" endorsing the Liberal-National coalition's economic and national security record.<br> <br>But the evangelical Christian from Cronulla put his stamp on the win by declaring: "I have always believed in miracles".<br> <br>"I'm standing with the three biggest miracles of my life here tonight (his wife and two daughters) and tonight we have been delivered another one."<br> <br>Mr Morrison ran Tourism Australia when it launched the controversial "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign, before his successful stint as state director of the NSW Liberal Party.<br> <br>He was elected to federal parliament in 2007 for the NSW seat of Cook.<br> <br>After the defeat of the Labor government in 2013, he rose to prominence by spearheading Operation Sovereign Borders as immigration minister to then-prime minister Tony Abbott.<br> <br>His hardline stance toward asylum seekers bewildered some observers, given his devout Christian beliefs.<br> <br>But he professed a deep belief in the righteousness of crushing the evil people-smuggling trade and preserving the safety of those on board rickety boats.<br> <br>During a nine-month stint as social services minister, Mr Morrison was also forced to sell the Abbott government's deeply unpopular 2014 budget, which was laced with a cocktail of deep welfare cuts.<br> <br>However, he was more pragmatic in the role of treasurer, performing back-flips on a range of unpopular government policies.<br> <br>Unpopular measures including a Medicare levy hike, superannuation changes and big business tax cuts were cast aside.<br> <br>Labor has made much out of public perceptions of Mr Morrison's tendency to say one thing and do another.<br> <br>Even members of his own team have questioned his integrity, with outgoing NSW Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells recently describing him as "unfit for office".<br> <br>Just days before taking the Liberal leadership in August 2018, Mr Morrison stood in the prime minister's courtyard and was asked to rule out having any leadership ambitions.<br> <br>"This is my leader and I'm ambitious for him," he told reporters, throwing his arm around Malcolm Turnbull with a grin.<br> <br>The prime minister has spent much of the past term dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, just when the government was getting the budget back in the black.<br> <br>When the first coronavirus case was confirmed in Melbourne in January 2020 the prime minister was already deep in disaster - dealing with the fallout from criticism over the handling of the bushfire response which became the subject of a royal commission.<br> <br>He set up the national cabinet to routinely meet with the premiers and put in place a ban on inbound travel, as the states imposed their own strict border controls.<br> <br>Parliament sat briefly to pass an economic stimulus package before adjourning until August.<br> <br>In September the impact of the pandemic was made clear with Australia going into recession for  cooks ([https://trendscookwiki.blogspot.com/ Xem thêm]) the first time in almost 30 years.<br> <br>Heading into 2021, Mr Morrison's stocks began to fall and he reshuffled his cabinet with a focus on women's safety and economic security - seen as a weak point for his government and a counter to media attention on the poor treatment of women in politics.<br> <br>His foreign policy credentials took a hit when he announced Australia was ditching a $90 billion contract with France to build submarines, instead teaming up with the US and UK for nuclear-powered boats.<br> <br>The coalition's standing hit a term-low 46 per cent in two-party terms in late 2021 and has not budged much since.<br> <br>Mr Morrison's path to victory depends on voters casting their ballots on May 21 based on his promises for the future, not the disasters of the past.<br> <br>As he puts it, this is not a referendum, it's a choice.<br>