A game of footy, flipping a few snags and a chat with students over a bacon and egg roll.
Next stop – the world, but today Prime Minister Scott Morrison took things down a notch and was up early for a morning visit to Endeavour Sports High School Caringbah.
The school was the first local stop of duty in Sutherland Shire for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, joining staff and members of the Clontarf Academy for breakfast.
The Clontarf Foundation is a non-profit organisation that aims to improve the education, discipline, life skills, self-esteem and employment prospects of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men.
It links sports – namely football – to students to encourage and inspire them to continue their education and further their prospects for life after school.
The programs are delivered through a network of football academies established in partnership with local schools to boost confidence and self-esteem. They provide a school-engagement mechanism for many at-risk students who would otherwise not attend or have low school attendance.
In partnership with the NSW government, the federal government has put $80 million in the program since 2014 – $17 million of that came from the last Budget.
“I’ve been involved with Clontarf for many years,” Mr Morrison said.
“The Clontarf Academy, which operates all around the country for young Indigenous boys, gets them into school, gets them onto a forward path where they can have confidence about their future.
“Who better than Jeff Hardy, the St George great, to be running the program here since it was first established many years ago.
“But I’m also today wearing Jersey Day.
“When we lost Nathan Gremmo a few years back in 2015 his parents started this process of Jersey Day to remind everybody about organ donation.”
At a press conference, Mr Morrison also congratulated Endeavour High on recently winning the Australian Education Award for Government Secondary School of the Year.
His appearance at the school comes ahead of his first international trip to Indonesia, which could secure a landmark trade deal.
The political leader of the nation will fly to Indonesia to meet with Indonesia president Joko Widodo eight years after the two nations began talks on a free trade agreement.
Wheat exports make up about half of Australia's agricultural trade with Indonesia, and grain growers hope that could be expanded under a trade deal.
Mr Morrison told Fairfax Media his first trip overseas as Prime Minister aims to enhance the importance of the relationship and commitment of the government to deepen its economic and security cooperation.
