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Speaker 1: James and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: What was announced yesterday our former Prime Minister Scott Morrison

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Speaker 2: has decided he'll be leaving politics for good. Where the

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Speaker 2: bloody hell is he going, Well, let's ask him. Good

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Speaker 2: morning Scott Morrison.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Amana, Good morning jame Zy. I talk to

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Speaker 1: you again. It's been a.

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Speaker 3: While, well it has been a while and you're a

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Speaker 3: civilian now.

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Speaker 1: Well soon at the end of February, I'll be standing

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Speaker 1: down as the Member for Cook which is people know

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Speaker 1: down in southern Sydney, in the Shire and as of

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Speaker 1: course you know, jame Z and I'm really thankful to

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Speaker 1: my local community for all the support they've given to

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Speaker 1: me over what's been more than sixteen years now in

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Speaker 1: the Parliament. When you're you know, when you're a prime

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Speaker 1: minister or Treasurer or everything, the first job you have

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Speaker 1: is the member of the electric you are in the

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Speaker 1: Parliament and it's been my great honor and privilege to

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Speaker 1: serve that community now for a quite a long period

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Speaker 1: of time and they've just been fantastic. So thanks everyone

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Speaker 1: down on the Shire in Southern Sydney. I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your support and as always Jonesy of up Cronulla.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed as a Prime minister during some of the

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Speaker 2: toughest times we've had during the pandemic, we're just talking

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Speaker 2: about it before we knew at the time. We'd look

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Speaker 2: back and think, gee, these these days are terrifying and unprecedented.

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Speaker 2: Were they your darkest days as our prime minister?

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Speaker 1: What? In many respects they were. The challenges with China,

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Speaker 1: frankly were more even more concerning, and we took very

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Speaker 1: strong positions there with Orcus and the quad and the

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Speaker 1: whole range of other things. But certainly for the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: it was just uncharted territory. You know, you were looking

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Speaker 1: into the Abyss on a daily basis. No one knew,

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Speaker 1: particularly in those early months, what this thing was, how

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Speaker 1: deadly it was. Everyone's livelihoods were at risk, not just

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Speaker 1: their lives, and I'm just really proud that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Australia came through that. I know we did have a

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Speaker 1: perfect response, but I tell you I've done a lot

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Speaker 1: of work, you know, globally, and we'll be doing more

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Speaker 1: in the future. And Australia is incredibly respected for the

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Speaker 1: fact that we had one of the lowest death rates

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Speaker 1: in the world, one of the strongest economies to come

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Speaker 1: through it. So Australians pulled through, and as Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: was police to play my role in leading us through that.

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Speaker 3: And you went through some difficult times. You know, you're

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Speaker 3: on the show where you said about the bushfire thing,

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Speaker 3: and then you regretted going to Hawaii and you discussed

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Speaker 3: that on our very own show, and then you had

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Speaker 3: the pandemic. It felt to me for a while there.

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Speaker 3: Can you get any more prickly footballs thrown at you

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Speaker 3: during your prime ministership?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think we saw over those almost four

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Speaker 1: years any of the same competination of events we've seen

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Speaker 1: since the Second World War. I think that's pretty well,

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Speaker 1: you know, understood and accepted. But that's the nature of

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Speaker 1: the job, guys. You know, you're elected and you deal

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Speaker 1: with what you deal with, and you know you can

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Speaker 1: go in with a whole range of things you'd like

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Speaker 1: to do, but you've got to deal with the stuff

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Speaker 1: that comes in Australia's way at that time. And you know,

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Speaker 1: whether it was on security or whether it was how

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Speaker 1: we got the economy through, but it was a lot

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Speaker 1: of other things we did in health, I mean, some

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Speaker 1: of the drugs that we listed on the on the

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Speaker 1: PBS cystic fibrosis, the thing which I know Jenny was

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Speaker 1: particularly passionate about that we did on endometriosis. And as

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Speaker 1: a prime Minister, and as a minister and as a Treasurer,

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Speaker 1: you get great opportunities to get a lot done, and

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Speaker 1: I'm very happy with what we're able to get done

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Speaker 1: in that time. I never wasted a day. I believe

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Speaker 1: I gave it everything I've got. And now down in

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Speaker 1: cook the party will have a chance to select a

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Speaker 1: new candidate for Liberal Party who I'm sure will come

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Speaker 1: and bring the same passion and enthusiasm and long term

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Speaker 1: commitment that I started with more than sixteen years ago.

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Speaker 2: And what happens now? Where are you off to?

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Speaker 1: I'm taking up a number of advisory roles, mainly in

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Speaker 1: the US. With the work I did with the US,

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Speaker 1: particularly around ORCUS and the defense industry. That's a very

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Speaker 1: big initiative, very proud of that, and it is very

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Speaker 1: massively supported over there. It's bipartisan. Over the last eighteen months,

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Speaker 1: I've actually worked with the government when I've been in

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Speaker 1: the UK and the US to promote ORCAS and to

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Speaker 1: make sure everyone there knows it's bipartisan, there's no politics

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Speaker 1: in it, and particularly with Richard Marlesey and I've worked

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Speaker 1: together on that, so look, I'll keep doing that. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm move into the private sector and into

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Speaker 1: private life, and I'm working with Mike Pompeo, who was

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Speaker 1: former director of the CIA and was the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State for Donald Trump and also his National security advisor

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Speaker 1: Robert O'Brien. I mean, I made some great friendships during

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Speaker 1: that time as Prime Minister and it's going to be

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Speaker 1: good working with those guys. And there are a number

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Speaker 1: of others that I'll be taking up in due course,

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Speaker 1: but private life and life in the Shire, and you know,

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Speaker 1: my family, Jenny and the girls sacrificed a lot for

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Speaker 1: me to do what I did over those years, and

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Speaker 1: it's time for me to be investing more in what

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Speaker 1: they'd like to do with their lives and supporting them.

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Speaker 3: Is it you're resigning from parliament? Is because the guy

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Speaker 3: that posted the thing about the Ingodeen Macas story has

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Speaker 3: come out and said that that never happened. He just

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Speaker 3: made it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a look, you take those on the gin,

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Speaker 1: you don't take yourself too seriously. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: thought that was a bit unkind, and he went all

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Speaker 1: over the world.

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Speaker 2: All over the bar.

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Speaker 3: The guy actually came out and he said, I just

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Speaker 3: made that up. Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: I mean people Jakes to Jake and that's that's fair enough.

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Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes the jack case of pit bar.

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Speaker 1: But you know, when you're in politics, you deal with

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Speaker 1: all sorts of things that come your way. You try,

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Speaker 1: you always take what you do seriously, but you don't

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Speaker 1: take yourself too seriously. As my converted up up Cronulla

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Speaker 1: song for the Jones.

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Speaker 3: Come on, let's get it on our favorite Amanda the

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Speaker 3: girl in the red, white and blue whilst came out.

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Speaker 3: We didn't always see eye to a lot of things,

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Speaker 3: but you were the Prime Minister. You gave it a

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Speaker 3: go and.

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Speaker 2: During some very difficult times. And all the best to

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Speaker 2: you and Jenny and the girls.

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Speaker 1: Well thanks, I'll see on Australia Day, jonesy. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I know you a big one for that down there

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Speaker 1: in the shop. We're all looking forward to seeing you.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a be a great day for everybody comes

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Speaker 1: along safe and families and everything looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Of course. Good on you mate, you look after you

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Speaker 3: thank you,