Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s resignation from parliament to take a senior executive role at DYNE Maritime —an Australian founded, US-based venture capital fund that—is yet another example of the revolving door between MPs and the military industrial complex.
Morrison joins Mike Pompeo, a hawkwho served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency under United States President Donald Trump, who is now DYNE Maritime’s “strategic adviser”.
about the potential for the war industry, telling a Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on January 31 that “China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela represent a new axis of evil regimes that is pushing a dangerous model for the world. And China is at the center.”
Morrison joins a who are profiting from AUKUS, including Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon and Liberals Christopher Pyne and Joe Hockey.
Capitalism is normalising the revolving doorphenomenon — the movement of individuals from public office to private companies and vice versa.
Morrison’s appointment reflects the latest in this undemocratic , which highlights the cosy relationship MPs and their senior bureaucrats have with the ruling class.
Morrisonworked for thelast year, even while purportedly representing the seat of Cook.
CNAS receives contributions from large weaponsmanufacturers, including Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and
Morrison has the credentials for his new “job”. He wasa key architect of the $368 billionAUKUS military pact and, under his watch, defence spending was boosted to more than 2% of gross domestic product as he talked up war with China.
The fact that Morrison was an advisor to a conservative Washington-based think tank while being MP for Cook shows how easily corruptible the parliamentary system is.
Morrison will have unprecedented access to both personnel and information. But his new corporate appointment is entirely legal.
It is becoming increasinglycommon for MPs to resign and step into senior corporate roles or become for corporations they formerly had some responsibility to regulate.
This phenomenon, which some describe as “” can also extend to senior public servants, some of whom have taken jobs as.
Michael West Media compiled adatabase tracking the movement of elected officials and other senior public servants taking up corporate roles in industries, such as. In mostcases, they came from the ranks of the Liberal and Labor parties.
Michelle Fahy reported in 2020 on the high numbers of public servants, including elected officials and military personnel, being hired by
Last July, Fahey’s two-part investigation for Declassified Australia between the Australian government and BAE Systems, the world’s sixth-largest arms manufacturer.
Given the West’sattacks on Yemen,its support for Israel’s genocide in Gazaandits increasing aggression towards China, largely through AUKUS, therevolving door should cause alarmto all those who value democracy.
Working people never have the same access to politicians to demand reforms to benefit the majority, including for an independent foreign policy that does not tie Australia to the US war drive.
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