Former PM Leaves Parliament With Speech Urging Australians to Reconnect With Christian Faith

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will today deliver a valedictory speech to Parliament as a final act before he retires for a new career in a corporate advisory. Mr. Morrison announced his intentions to leave Canberra in January, going back on a statement that indicated his intentions to stay on with the centre-right Liberal Party as a backbencher after their election defeat to Labor in May 2023. His departure will trigger an upcoming by-election for the traditionally safe Liberal party seat of Cook in South Sydney, which he has held for 17 years. Serving as Australia’s 30th Prime Minister between 2018 and May 2022, Mr. Morrison was quickly promoted to the shadow cabinet not long after entering the House of Representatives in 2007. In 2013, under Tony Abbott’s government, he was given the portfolio for immigration and border protection....