This is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Scott Morrison, the 30th Prime Minister of Australia. During his time in office (August 2018 to May 2022), Scott Morrison made twenty-nine international trips to eighteen sovereign countries. The number of visits per country are as follows:
Argentina, East Timor, Iraq, Italy, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
Fiji, France, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States.[a]
New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
Country | Locations | Dates | Details |
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Indonesia | 31 August–1 September | Morrison met President Joko Widodo, visited the SMPN 2 Babakan Madang school, and spoke at the Indonesia-Australia Business Forum.[1][2][3] | |
Singapore | Singapore | 13–15 November | Morrison attended the 33rd ASEAN Summit, and met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and Indonesian President Widodo.[4][5] |
Papua New Guinea | Port Moresby | 17–19 November | Morrison attended the 2018 APEC Summit, met with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, and visited HMAS Adelaide.[6][7] |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | 30 November–2 December | Morrison attended the 2018 G20 summit, and met with U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron.[8][9] |
Iraq | 20 December | Morrison visited Australian Operation Okra troops at Camp Taji, and met with Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.[10][11] |
Country | Locations | Dates | Details |
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Vanuatu | Port Vila | 15–16 January | Morrison met with Prime Minister Charlot Salwai.[12] |
Fiji | 17–18 January | Morrison met with Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.[13] | |
New Zealand | Auckland | 22 February | Morrison met with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.[14] |
New Zealand | Christchurch | 29 March | Morrison attended the memorial service for victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings.[15] |
Solomon Islands | Honiara | 2–3 June | Morrison met with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.[16][17] |
United Kingdom | 4–6 June | Morrison met with Queen Elizabeth II and Charles, Prince of Wales, and attended the official commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.[18][19] | |
Singapore | Singapore | 7 June | Morrison met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.[20] |
Japan | Osaka | 27–29 June | Morrison attended the 2019 G20 summit, and met with U.S. President Donald Trump. |
Tuvalu | Funafuti | 14–16 August | Morrison attended the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting.[21] |
Vietnam | Hanoi | 22–24 August | Morrison met with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.[22] |
France | Biarritz | 24–26 August | Morrison attended the 45th G7 summit, and met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.[23] |
East Timor | Dili | 30–31 August | Morrison met with Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak and attended the 20th anniversary of the 1999 East Timorese independence referendum.[24] |
United States | 19–27 September | Morrison attended a state dinner hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House, opened a Visy paper mill in Ohio alongside Trump and Anthony Pratt, gave a keynote speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and delivered the Australian National Statement to the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[25][26] | |
Fiji | Suva | 11–12 October | Morrison met with Prime Minister Bainimarama and attended a Prime Minister's XIII rugby league match.[27] |
Indonesia | Jakarta | 19–20 October | Morrison attended the inauguration of President Joko Widodo following his re-election.[28] |
Thailand | Bangkok | 3–4 November | Morrison attended the fourteenth East Asia Summit, and met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and several Southeast Asian leaders.[29] |
United States | Hawaii | 16–21 December | Morrison and his family went to Hawaii for a holiday. Morrison returned home early on December 21 following strong public criticism for being absent during the Black Summer Bushfires.[30] |
Morrison was scheduled to visit India and Japan in January 2020, but postponed these trips due to the Black Summer bushfires,[31][32] and later due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The India-Australia summit was eventually held virtually in June 2020.[33] Morrison was also due to visit Papua New Guinea in November 2020, but deferred this trip due to Prime Minister James Marape's sudden decline in parliamentary support.[34]
Country | Locations | Dates | Details |
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Japan | Tokyo | 17–18 November | Morrison became one of the first world leaders to meet with new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.[35] |
Country | Locations | Dates | Details |
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New Zealand | Queenstown | 30–31 May | Following the opening of a travel bubble between their two countries, Morrison met with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for their Annual Leaders Dialogue.[36] |
Singapore | Singapore | 10 June | Morrison met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.[37] |
United Kingdom | 11–15 June | Morrison attended the G7 summit in Cornwall, toured Cornwall while tracing his Cornwall ancestry.[38] He then negotiated and signed a free trade deal with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 15 June at 10 Downing Street.[39] | |
France | Paris | 15 June | Morrison met with President Emmanuel Macron to discuss submarines, weapons and trade conflict with China.[40] |
United States | 21–27 September | Morrison attended the seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, and met with President Joe Biden after the assembly. He then met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for dinner at Washington, D.C., and attended the Quad leader's summit.[41][42] | |
Italy | Rome | 30–31 October | Morrison attended the 2021 G20 summit.[43] |
United Kingdom | Glasgow | 1–2 November | Morrison attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
Morrison did not make any prime ministerial overseas visits in the period between attending COP26 in Glasgow and his loss of the 2022 Australian federal election.
Scott Morrison attended the following summits during his prime ministership:
Group | Year | |||
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2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
UNGA | 28 September, New York City |
24–27 September, New York City |
25 September, (videoconference) New York City |
21–24 September, New York City |
APEC | 17–18 November, Port Moresby |
16–17 November, (cancelled) Santiago |
20 November, (videoconference) Kuala Lumpur |
12 November, (videoconference) Auckland |
EAS (ASEAN) |
14–15 November, Singapore |
4 November, Bangkok |
14 November, (videoconference) Hanoi |
26–27 October, (videoconference) Bandar Seri Begawan |
G7 | 24–26 August, Biarritz |
10–12 June, (cancelled) Camp David |
11–13 June, Carbis Bay | |
G20 | 30 November – 1 December, Buenos Aires |
28–29 June, Osaka |
21–22 November, (videoconference) Riyadh |
30–31 October, Rome |
CHOGM | None | |||
PIF | 5 September, Yaren |
14–16 August, Funafuti |
None | 6 August, (videoconference) Suva |
██ = Future event ██ = Did not attend |
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