Mr Morrison made the remarks in a speech – in which he repeatedly referred tohis Pentecostal faith – called “the responsibility of citizens in building community to achieve national success”.
“As citizens,we cannot allow what we think we are entitled to,to become more important than what we are responsible for,” he told an audience that included his best friend and prayer partner,cabinet minister Stuart Robert,and Liberal backbenchers Dave Sharma and Julian Leeser.
“I would argue that we must protect against the forces that would undermine community – and I don’t just mean the social and moral corrosion caused by the misuse of social media and the abuse that occurs there.
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“It also includes the growing tendency to commodify human beings through identity politics.
“You are more than the things others try to identify you by in this age of identity politics. You are more than your gender,your sexuality,your race,your ethnicity,your religion,your language group,your age.”
Mr Morrison said reducing ourselves to attributes,or dividing along these lines,made us lose sight of “who we are as individuals”.