Scott Morrison at the 2021 Australian Christian Churches conference with Pastor Wayne Alcorn and Pastor Alun Davies (Image: Facebook)
Last week Scott Morrison delivered an address to the biennial conference of the Australian Christian Churches in which he revealed himself as Australia’s most religious prime minister. The speech has attracted enormous public interest, yet the Prime Minister’s Office has not posted it to the PM’s official site despite Morrison travelling to the venue on a taxpayer-funded flight.
In the interests of transparency and helping readers make up their own mind, Crikey
is publishing this transcription of the PM’s 23-minute address. A small disclaimer: the transcription, done by a Twitter poster, has not been checked against delivery.
Scott Morrison at the 2021 Australian Christian Churches conference with Pastor Wayne Alcorn and Pastor Alun Davies (Image: Facebook)
There’s never been a more religious prime minister than Scott Morrison. We’ve long known he is a devout Pentecostal, a regular congregant at the Horizon Church (née ShireLive) in Sutherland, and met his wife Jenny at a Christian camp when they were teenagers.
But yesterday we got an astonishingly clear-eyed insight into Morrison’s religiosity after a video of his impromptu address at the Australian Christian Churches conference surfaced online. In it he says he was called to do “God’s work” in Australia. He rails against the evils of social media and identity politics, and describes literally putting his hands on people and praying for them apparently without them knowing.