Former prime minister Scott Morrison hails ‘great’ trip to Perth to deliver church sermon

Scott Morrison has flown out of WA after making his first visit to the State since his election loss two months ago, calling the trip “great”.

The former prime minister delivered a sermon at a Perth church run by controversial tennis legend Margaret Court on Sunday — where he declared he “still believes in miracles”.

He attended the event at the invitation of Mrs Court to mark the Pentecostal Victory Life Centre’s 27th birthday and to officially open its five-storey prayer tower.

Mr Morrison told The West Australian he flew out of Perth on Monday and his time in the city had been great.

“(It) has been great to be here in Perth on a private visit,” he said before departing.

As guest speaker at the church, Mr Morrison said he wanted to thank “Christians all around the country” for their prayers for him, his wife Jenny and their family over his years in public life.

“We’re deeply grateful wherever we went around the country — I would find people and they would come up to me and say ‘we are praying for you’, and I said ‘keep doing it’,” he said.

“I still believe in miracles.”

It comes after WA delivered Anthony Albanese his election victory on May 21, with the Liberal Party losing five seats in the State — Swan, Hasluck, Tangney, Pearce and Curtain, with four flipping to Labor.

In his first speech since losing the election, Mr Morrison on Thursday told a leadership conference in South Korea — before heading to Perth — that COVID-19 and national cabinet hurt this election chances, particularly in WA.

“As the pandemic evolved, it became more difficult to keep uniformity in the various restrictions employed by each State as the experience of the virus was no longer uniform,” he said.

“When we disagreed, this caused great frustration among the public. While such disa­greement was inevitable, many Australians found it difficult to understand why the Prime Minister could not just make the decisions.”