Speaking of the US and Aukus, Scott Morrison popped up in a US Congress hearing, sharing his experience of dealing with China’s trade punishments with Australia during his term of government.

Morrison said it was in response to his call for an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid (remember that?) but there was quite a few flashpoints on both sides over the years. Now Morrison, who is traveling the world pretending he was a successful leader on a number of fronts, has told the US Congress that the US and its allies have to strengthen their relationships to push back against China.

As AAP reports Morrison said:

This is as true in the economic sphere as it is in the security sphere,” Morrison said in a rare appearance by a country’s former leader before Congress.

Morrison wants a “strong core” to those relationships and he says that means a “strong America”.

After losing the 2022 election, Morrison hung around on the opposition backbench until he secured another job (it took a bit) and now he is the vice chair of ‘American Global Strategies’ an advisory firm founded by Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Robert O’Brien, where they advise and consult on all sorts of fun things, like defence.