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"These ranged from unrelenting natural disasters and a once-in-a-century global pandemic and the recession it caused, to coercion and intimidation designed to threaten our support for a free and open Indo-Pacific, a world order that favours freedom and our strong bond with allies and partners," Mr Morrison said. Mr Morrison won the safe seat of Cook in Sydney's Sutherland Shire in 2007 and was swiftly appointed to the shadow cabinet after a stellar career as Liberal Party state director and head of Tourism Australia. In 2013, he became immigration minister in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government where he coordinated the government's asylum seeker response known as Operation Sovereign Borders. In the reshuffle the following year, he was appointed social services minister and later treasurer in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government. READ MORE: Search the full King's Birthday Honours List In August 2018, he was sworn in as prime minister, rising to the leadership as a compromise candidate after Peter Dutton challenged Malcom Turnbull in a bruising leadership battle. Mr Morrison won a second term in May 2019 in a surprise victory despite the Coalition lagging in the polls in the weeks leading up to election day. He famously declared "I have always believed in miracles." Mr Morrison's career was also marked by controversy, including taking a family holiday in Hawaii during the Black Summer bushfires. He also faced backlash over his handling of parliamentary misconduct allegations and for his secret ministries scandal for which he was censured in November 2022 for failing to disclose his secret self-appointments to a number of ministries. Mr Morrison's government was defeated at the 2022 election after a large swing away from the Coalition and a clutch of "teal" independent wins in inner city seats. During the campaign, Mr Morrison famously crash-tackled eight-year-old student Luca Fauvette while visiting Devonport Strikers soccer club practice in northern Tasmania. He paid tribute to his wife Jenny and two "miracle girls" Abbey and Lily, who were conceived by the couple after years of infertility, during his valedictory speech in February 2023. "As most people know, subject only to God, my family is the centre of my life, and at the very centre of our family is Jen," he said. "I cannot imagine life without her. I love you, Jen, and always will- that is the cross you have to bear. "Your love has been my stay and strength." He left politics "appreciative and thankful, unburdened by offences and released from any bitterness that can so often haunt post-political lives". "This is due to my faith in Jesus Christ, which gives me the faith to both forgive, but also to be honest about my own failures and shortcomings," he said. Mr Morrison has worked as an advisor to various lobby groups and as a public speaker in his career after public service. He released Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness in 2023, a part-political memoir, part-spiritual guide. One of the revelations in the book is that he used medication to treat anxiety between 2018 and 2022, a period that covers his time as prime minister. Mr Morrison also made headlines earlier this year after a photo album his wife accidentally donated to a charity shop was picked up by a TikToker. It was later safely returned. Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been recognised with the highest award in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours list. Mr Morrison was made a Companion of the Order of Australia on June 8 for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and brokering the trilateral security partnership AUKUS. Mr Morrison, 57, served as Australia's 30th prime minister from 2018 to 2022. In a statement to ACM, the publisher of this masthead, Mr Morrison said he was "honoured and grateful" to receive the accolade. "It was an immense privilege to be given the opportunity by the Australian people to serve them, as their 30th Prime Minister of Australia from August 2018 to May 2022," he said. "During this time, Australia faced challenges and threats not experienced since the Second World War." "These ranged from unrelenting natural disasters and a once-in-a-century global pandemic and the recession it caused, to coercion and intimidation designed to threaten our support for a free and open Indo-Pacific, a world order that favours freedom and our strong bond with allies and partners," Mr Morrison said. Mr Morrison won the safe seat of Cook in Sydney's Sutherland Shire in 2007 and was swiftly appointed to the shadow cabinet after a stellar career as Liberal Party state director and head of Tourism Australia. In 2013, he became immigration minister in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government where he coordinated the government's asylum seeker response known as Operation Sovereign Borders. In the reshuffle the following year, he was appointed social services minister and later treasurer in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government. READ MORE: Search the full King's Birthday Honours List In August 2018, he was sworn in as prime minister, rising to the leadership as a compromise candidate after Peter Dutton challenged Malcom Turnbull in a bruising leadership battle. Mr Morrison won a second term in May 2019 in a surprise victory despite the Coalition lagging in the polls in the weeks leading up to election day. He famously declared "I have always believed in miracles." Mr Morrison's career was also marked by controversy, including taking a family holiday in Hawaii during the Black Summer bushfires. He also faced backlash over his handling of parliamentary misconduct allegations and for his secret ministries scandal for which he was censured in November 2022 for failing to disclose his secret self-appointments to a number of ministries. Mr Morrison's government was defeated at the 2022 election after a large swing away from the Coalition and a clutch of "teal" independent wins in inner city seats. During the campaign, Mr Morrison famously crash-tackled eight-year-old student Luca Fauvette while visiting Devonport Strikers soccer club practice in northern Tasmania. He paid tribute to his wife Jenny and two "miracle girls" Abbey and Lily, who were conceived by the couple after years of infertility, during his valedictory speech in February 2023. "As most people know, subject only to God, my family is the centre of my life, and at the very centre of our family is Jen," he said. "I cannot imagine life without her. I love you, Jen, and always will- that is the cross you have to bear. "Your love has been my stay and strength." He left politics "appreciative and thankful, unburdened by offences and released from any bitterness that can so often haunt post-political lives". "This is due to my faith in Jesus Christ, which gives me the faith to both forgive, but also to be honest about my own failures and shortcomings," he said. Mr Morrison has worked as an advisor to various lobby groups and as a public speaker in his career after public service. He released Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness in 2023, a part-political memoir, part-spiritual guide. One of the revelations in the book is that he used medication to treat anxiety between 2018 and 2022, a period that covers his time as prime minister. Mr Morrison also made headlines earlier this year after a photo album his wife accidentally donated to a charity shop was picked up by a TikToker. It was later safely returned. Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been recognised with the highest award in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours list. Mr Morrison was made a Companion of the Order of Australia on June 8 for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and brokering the trilateral security partnership AUKUS. Mr Morrison, 57, served as Australia's 30th prime minister from 2018 to 2022. In a statement to ACM, the publisher of this masthead, Mr Morrison said he was "honoured and grateful" to receive the accolade. "It was an immense privilege to be given the opportunity by the Australian people to serve them, as their 30th Prime Minister of Australia from August 2018 to May 2022," he said. "During this time, Australia faced challenges and threats not experienced since the Second World War." "These ranged from unrelenting natural disasters and a once-in-a-century global pandemic and the recession it caused, to coercion and intimidation designed to threaten our support for a free and open Indo-Pacific, a world order that favours freedom and our strong bond with allies and partners," Mr Morrison said. Mr Morrison won the safe seat of Cook in Sydney's Sutherland Shire in 2007 and was swiftly appointed to the shadow cabinet after a stellar career as Liberal Party state director and head of Tourism Australia. In 2013, he became immigration minister in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government where he coordinated the government's asylum seeker response known as Operation Sovereign Borders. In the reshuffle the following year, he was appointed social services minister and later treasurer in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government. READ MORE: Search the full King's Birthday Honours List In August 2018, he was sworn in as prime minister, rising to the leadership as a compromise candidate after Peter Dutton challenged Malcom Turnbull in a bruising leadership battle. Mr Morrison won a second term in May 2019 in a surprise victory despite the Coalition lagging in the polls in the weeks leading up to election day. He famously declared "I have always believed in miracles." Mr Morrison's career was also marked by controversy, including taking a family holiday in Hawaii during the Black Summer bushfires. He also faced backlash over his handling of parliamentary misconduct allegations and for his secret ministries scandal for which he was censured in November 2022 for failing to disclose his secret self-appointments to a number of ministries. Mr Morrison's government was defeated at the 2022 election after a large swing away from the Coalition and a clutch of "teal" independent wins in inner city seats. During the campaign, Mr Morrison famously crash-tackled eight-year-old student Luca Fauvette while visiting Devonport Strikers soccer club practice in northern Tasmania. He paid tribute to his wife Jenny and two "miracle girls" Abbey and Lily, who were conceived by the couple after years of infertility, during his valedictory speech in February 2023. "As most people know, subject only to God, my family is the centre of my life, and at the very centre of our family is Jen," he said. "I cannot imagine life without her. I love you, Jen, and always will- that is the cross you have to bear. "Your love has been my stay and strength." He left politics "appreciative and thankful, unburdened by offences and released from any bitterness that can so often haunt post-political lives". "This is due to my faith in Jesus Christ, which gives me the faith to both forgive, but also to be honest about my own failures and shortcomings," he said. Mr Morrison has worked as an advisor to various lobby groups and as a public speaker in his career after public service. He released Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness in 2023, a part-political memoir, part-spiritual guide. One of the revelations in the book is that he used medication to treat anxiety between 2018 and 2022, a period that covers his time as prime minister. Mr Morrison also made headlines earlier this year after a photo album his wife accidentally donated to a charity shop was picked up by a TikToker. It was later safely returned. Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been recognised with the highest award in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours list. Mr Morrison was made a Companion of the Order of Australia on June 8 for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and brokering the trilateral security partnership AUKUS. Mr Morrison, 57, served as Australia's 30th prime minister from 2018 to 2022. In a statement to ACM, the publisher of this masthead, Mr Morrison said he was "honoured and grateful" to receive the accolade. "It was an immense privilege to be given the opportunity by the Australian people to serve them, as their 30th Prime Minister of Australia from August 2018 to May 2022," he said. "During this time, Australia faced challenges and threats not experienced since the Second World War." "These ranged from unrelenting natural disasters and a once-in-a-century global pandemic and the recession it caused, to coercion and intimidation designed to threaten our support for a free and open Indo-Pacific, a world order that favours freedom and our strong bond with allies and partners," Mr Morrison said. Mr Morrison won the safe seat of Cook in Sydney's Sutherland Shire in 2007 and was swiftly appointed to the shadow cabinet after a stellar career as Liberal Party state director and head of Tourism Australia. 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Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Former prime minister Scott Morrison has been handed the highest recognition in this year's King's Birthday honours list. Morrison is one of 14 people to be made a Companion of the Order of Australia, along with the likes of film director Baz Luhrmann and his costume designer wife Catherine Martin, businesswoman Jennifer Westacott and former CSIRO chair Kathryn Fagg. "These honours recognise the selfless service, integrity, achievement, creativity, and care that flourish across our country," Governor-General Samantha Mostyn said. See the full list of award winners in the King's Birthday honours list below. "I see the values of care, kindness and respect in the many Australians who are honoured today, and in those who have been recognised throughout the 50-year history of our Australian honours system." Morrison was handed the honour "for eminent service to the people and parliament of Australia... to notable contributions to global engagement, to leadership of the national COVID-19 response, to economic initiatives, and to national security enhancements, especially through leadership of Australia's contribution to AUKUS". He served as prime minister from 2018, when predecessor Malcolm Turnbull was replaced in a Liberal leadership spill, until the Coalition lost the 2022 federal election. Under his leadership, the Liberals and Nationals were victorious in what was widely considered to be an unwinnable 2019 election, before the government formed the multibillion-dollar AUKUS pact with the United States and United Kingdom in which Australia is scheduled to receive nuclear-powered submarines. Scott Morrison, seen here in on election night in 2022, has been handed the highest award in this year's King's Birthday Honours list. () The nation also recorded one of the lowest fatality rates in the world from the COVID-19 pandemic during his time in power. However, Morrison also received significant criticism for some of his actions as prime minister, including his ill-timed family holiday to Hawaii during the Black Summer bushfires followed by the infamous "I don't hold a hose" comment, and the slow procurement of vaccines during the pandemic. Morrison was also social services minister when the robodebt scheme was created, and the royal commission into the program found he "failed" his responsibility and "allowed cabinet to be misled" – findings he rejected as "wrong, unsubstantiated and contradicted by clear documentary evidence". His biggest controversy though, didn't emerge until after he had lost the prime ministership, when in 2022 it was revealed he had secretly sworn himself into five ministries during the pandemic, most of which were done without the knowledge of the ministers already overseeing those portfolios. Catherine Martin and Baz Luhrmann have also both been made a Companion of the Order of Australia. (Getty) Since its inception in 1975, it has been customary for former prime ministers to have the Companionship of the Order of Australia bestowed upon them. Paul Keating is the only one to not hold the honour, having turned it down in 1997. Joining Morrison on the honours list this year are Luhrmann and Martin, the powerhouse couple of Australian film who were behind blockbuster hits including Romeo + Juliet , Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby , as well as local classic Strictly Ballroom . Former Olympic medallist swimmer and ex-AFLW general manager Nicole Livingstone was made an Officer of the Order of Australia – the second-highest honour – as was principal Nine Entertainment shareholder Bruce Gordon. national Australia Politics government Scott Morrison CONTACT US
