Former prime minister Scott Morrison will join an India-based tech firm specialising in outsourcing of international visas, as the Liberal Party pledges to crackdown on migration in the face of a growing threat from One Nation. <\/p>\n
In a press release, BLS International announced last week the former Liberal leader had been appointed global strategic adviser. <\/p>\n
Based in New Delhi, BLS International provides dozens of client governments, including India and Spain, with \u201cvisa, passports, consular, citizen, e-governance, attestation, biometric, e-visa, and retail services\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the statement, the firm said it hoped to draw on Mr Morrison\u2019s \u201cdeep economic, trade, and commercial background to further its long-term growth vision\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore and during his time in public office, his career heavily centred around market economics, financial regulation, infrastructure, and trade diversification,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Morrison has built a substantial track record working directly with corporate boards, private equity, and global advisory firms.\u201d<\/p>\n
The firm noted that Mr Morrison was a founding member of the Quad Leaders Dialogue, an anti-China alliance with India, the United States and Japan, and had \u201celevated Australia\u2019s relationship with India\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis strategic advice to BLS International enhances this relationship between our governments, to harness the emerging trends in citizen services, international mobility, and digital government transformation to enhance ease of living for citizens of the world,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
Mr Morrison said BLS was a \u201ctrusted partner\u201d to governments across the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look forward to supporting and contributing my insights to support BLS International\u2019s plans for continued growth that will give governments better choices to meet the evolving needs of their citizens and international visitors,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe future of public services will require governments and their partners to combine innovation, security, efficiency and integrity as they deliver truly user experience centric services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notable for his homemade curries, Mr Morrison resigned from parliament in 2024 following the Coalition\u2019s 2022 election loss. <\/p>\n
He went on to serve as vice-chairman of the American Global Strategies, as well as publishing an autobiography. <\/p>\n
His most recent appointment comes at a precarious time for the Coalition.<\/p>\n
This week, Liberal Leader Angus Taylor refused to say whether the Coalition continued to support multiculturalism after One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson declared in her National Press Club address Australia would become a \u201cmonoculture\u201d \u2013 a term the Queensland senator and her MPs have struggled to since define. <\/p>\n
Mr Taylor, after being asked five times and repeatedly deferring to the Coalition\u2019s proposed immigration policy based on \u201cAustralian values\u201d, said: \u201cWe can have people from all over the world, of all races and religions in this country, but they must share those core values.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Taylor pledged to tie immigration to housing approvals in his budget reply speech. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Scott Morrison will join an India-based tech firm specialising in outsourcing of international visas, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-761188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}