PM’s new ministry to be sworn in today



PRIME Minister Julia Gillard’s new ministry is set to be sworn in by Governor-General Quentin Bryce at a ceremony in Sydney.


Labor MPs and senators who have been given new roles following the prime minister’s frontbench reshuffle this week will be sworn in at Admiralty House at 3.15pm (AEDT) this afternoon.

Ms Gillard on Monday unveiled an expanded 22-member cabinet, elevating Bill Shorten, Mark Butler and Tanya Plibersek, while demoting industry minister Kim Carr to the outer ministry.

She also took the attorney-general role from Robert McClelland but kept him in cabinet to oversee emergency management and housing.

Ms Gillard has said her reshuffled cabinet will give her Labor Government extra “firepower” in the new year.

Mr McClelland yesterday said he would have preferred to stay in the role which has gone to outgoing Health Minister Nicola Roxon. She will be the first woman to hold the post.

Senator Carr also said he’d like to have kept his old job instead of being made minister for manufacturing and defence materiel.

“Whilst this change of portfolio was not of my choosing, it is a job I am honoured to do,” he said.

Women make up about 23 per cent of the new cabinet, the highest proportion on record.
 

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