Scott Morrison has delivered a stunning broadside at the globalist elite who fancy themselves the born rulers of a New World Order. In a speech that will certainly give the globalists a fit of the vapours, Morrison has reaffirmed the primacy of national sovereignty. Stand by for shrieks of “populism!” and “Trumpism!”
Scott Morrison is not only drawing a line in the sand on national sovereignty, but he is also reaffirming Coalition tradition and championing the “Forgotten People”, the “Quiet Australians” against the noisy elite.
Scott Morrison has declared his government will lead the charge in asserting the authority of nation states over unelected international institutions, such as the UN.
The Prime Minister, in a major foreign policy address…signalled Australia would seek to play a greater role in shaping a new economic and strategic world order.
Mr Morrison’s speech was aimed squarely at the push by the UN to set the global agenda on issues such as climate change and refugee policies.
As democratic nations increasingly band together to counter a rising China, Mr Morrison announced he would visit India and Japan early next year and Indonesia next month.
These are exactly the key allies, along with the US, that Australia and New Zealand should be courting as a foil to China. All have a mutual self-interest against the rising dragon.
While Mr Morrison recognised the benefits the global economy had brought Australia, he declared that the ballot box should always be more powerful than international institutions.
This is the difference between globalisation and globalism. One is the natural, historical process of human communities sharing resources through trade, to their mutual benefit. It’s a process at least as old as the Silk Road from Europe to China.
The other, though, is the conceit that unelected international institutions can and should override national sovereignty. It’s an elitist doctrine that assumes that the “Guardian caste” are simply better, wiser and more entitled to rule than the hoi polloi with their ballot papers.
“Only a national government, especially one accountable through the ballot box and the rule of law, can define its national interests. We can never answer to a higher authority than the people of Australia.”
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/pms-powerful-rhetoric-has-global-ramifications
Scott Morrison has defined the type of globalisation he does not like.
The Prime Minister remains an advocate of free trade, low tariff barriers, a rules-based international order and all the rest, but in a powerful address to the Lowy Institute he has set out his conviction that effective international action on big global issues comes from nation states co-operating freely.
As he puts it, “individual, like-minded sovereign nations acting together with enlightened self-interest”.
As opposed to this, he rejects the arrogance of a “new variant of globalism that seeks to elevate global institutions above the authority of nation states to direct national policies”.
This kind of globalism, Morrison rightly argues, leads to “elite opinion and attitudes” that “become disconnected from the mainstream” in their societies.
This in turn produces an alienating era of “insiders and outsiders”.
Globalists are invariably the sort of modern leftist who reaps the benefits of wealth and privilege while espousing a hypocritical socialism-for-the-rich. Just as socialists are horrified by the thought of a free market unshackled from bureaucracy, globalists are terrified of a world without a global ruler – a dictatorship of the elite.
Morrison is not championing a heedless beggar-thy-neighbour nationalism. Rather, with admirable realism, he is sketching the only kind of international co-operation that ever really works, that of strong nations pursuing enlightened self-interest and co-operating on shared projects arising from shared interests and shared values. If Morrison had been making this speech in Britain, it would sound like a pro-Brexit speech.
In Australia’s context, the criticism he makes is more directed at the plethora of UN agencies, most of which have no public profile in Australia, which criticise Canberra policy on secure borders, refugee flows, climate change, aid budgets and the many weird contortions and inversions of human rights that UN agencies and their dependent NGOs promote.
The UN agencies take special delight in criticising nations such as Australia while avoiding criticism of the nations that routinely commit crimes against humanity.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/pm-slap-for-un-in-new-world-order
The UN has steadily betrayed its own charter, for decades. The EU is desperate to stamp out people’s movements, from Brexit to the Yellow Jackets. The nomenklatura jealously guards its privilege. Stand by for the elites and their mouthpieces, from The Guardian and The Economist to arrogant, globalist politicians, to attack Morrison for all they’re worth.
Morrison’s next meeting with Jacinda Ardern ought to be interesting.