Sounding more like Putin than a leader of a party elected to be servants  of the people  Morrison stood in front of the press to say

“My government will never be backward when it comes to standing up for Australia’s national interests and standing up for liberal democracy in today’s world, which is demarcating between autocrats and authoritarian regimes, invading and seeking to coerce liberal democratic regimes,” Morrison told reporters in his courtyard.

Source: Scott Morrison has a lot to say about democratic values. Here’s how he could actually enact them | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian