Who is Scott Morrison?
The Liberal Party has chosen Treasurer Scott Morrison to be Australia's next prime minister after a week of shocking twists and turns in federal politics.
Mr Morrison ran against Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in a party-room leadership spill.
So who is the man becoming Australia's 30th prime minister?
Just days have passed since then-Treasurer Scott Morrison assured reporters he was not making plans to pursue the prime ministership of Australia.
"The Prime Minister has my full and total support, and I want to put to rest any suggestion that I've made any approach (or) any approach has been made. It's all the usual nonsense. And the Prime Minister knows exactly where I stand. The Australian people always know where I stand." PM-elect said.
He now stands as the head of the Liberal Party and Australia's sixth prime minister in a decade.
Scott Morrison grew up in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bronte, the younger of two sons.
Treasurer Scott Morrison. (Getty Images) Source: Getty Images AsiaPac
Destined to be in the public eye, he had a short-lived career as a child actor, appearing in a number of television commercials.
After high school, he gained an honours degree in applied economic geography at the University of New South Wales.
Mr Morrison then held several positions on councils promoting Australia's tourism industry before spending four years as state director of the New South Wales Liberal Party.
He entered federal politics towards the end of 2007 after winning the seat of Cook, in south-eastern Sydney.
In his maiden speech to parliament, Mr Morrison said he was proud of then-prime minister Kevin Rudd’s national apology to Indigenous Australians, which parliament had witnessed the day before.
And he called for greater humanitarian aid to Africa.
Over the decade he has spent in parliament, he has held three federal portfolios.
Mr Morrison made his mark as immigration and border-protection minister, launching the so-called "stop the boats" policy to curtail what was termed illegal immigration and people-smuggling.
This year, it was revealed that, while in the role, he had asked ASIO to delay security checks on asylum seekers so they would miss a deadline to obtain permanent protection visas.
Mr Morrison spent nine months as social services minister before being appointed Treasurer in September 2015.
He has a reputation as a deeply religious man, attending a Pentecostal church.
He opposed legalising same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017.
Mr Morrison says he once aspired to the defence portfolio and never anticipated ending up in the role of Treasurer.
He counts Australia's longest-serving Treasurer, Peter Costello, as one of his mentors.
In his time as Treasurer, Mr Morrison promoted the economic theory of expanding overall wealth to solve financial shortfalls, believing everyone wins when there is more money to go around.
"You've got to make the pie bigger. And if the pie's bigger, everybody's getting more, and regardless of what their share is, except for Western Australia. And what we've done on digital transactions, low-value threshold goods, all of these things, and I announced this in the budget, over the next four years, the GST pool is going to grow by $6.5 billion specifically because of the decisions we have taken as a government." Mr Morrison said.
(AAP Image/Alan Porritt) Source: AAP
In early 2018, Scott Morrison, as Treasurer, asked Australians to put their trust in the Coalition, saying the most important thing for the country is stability.
"The Australian economy is now pulling out of one of the toughest periods we have faced in generations. Our national economy is strengthening, but it is also true that the benefits are yet to reach everyone. And this will take more time. That is why it is important to stick to our plan. We are close to our destination, and we must stick to our plan."
With a federal election due in the next nine months, Scott Morrison must now convince Australians the Liberal Party, which has shown little stability or certainty, is the best party to run the country.
