Morrison's Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin SpecialThe story of the Prime Minister's foreign policy convictions and calculations, from the Lowy Institute. When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by making highly contentious changes that will be felt