Australia: New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese nominates record number of women in new government

Australia’s new cabinet was sworn in on Wednesday with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointing a record number of women, choosing to include members of both religious and indigenous minorities in the government.

Ten of the 23 members of the government are women, compared to seven who participated in the previous Liberal and National Party coalition government under Scott Morrison.

Industry Minister Ed Husik and Youth Minister Ann Ali became Australia’s first Muslim federal ministers at a ceremony in the capital Canberra, while Linda Burney, wearing a kangaroo cloak, became the first indigenous woman to be born. Populations of Australia.

Albanezi formed a caretaker ministry with four members of the government, two days after the May 21 election, to attend a quadripartite conference in Tokyo attended by US President Joe Biden and leaders of Japan and Japan. .

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marls, who served in the caretaker ministry, was in charge of defense, along with Penny Wong (finance minister), Jim Chalmers (finance minister) and Katie Gallagher (finance minister).

Don Farrell is the new Commerce Secretary and Tanya Plybersek is the new Environment Secretary, while Claire O’Neill will be in charge of Home Affairs, with Chris Bowen taking over the energy portfolio.

Former Labor leader Bill Sorten will be a minister in charge of government services.

Albanezi said yesterday that the Labor Party would govern autonomously, claiming 77 seats in the lower house, out of a total of 151, and would therefore be able to form a majority government without the support of independent lawmakers focused on the climate. but also of the Greens.

The formation of a majority government reduces the need for Labor to negotiate with 16 independent MPs and minority parties in order to pass their legislative work, despite the fact that they must gain additional support for the passage of legislation by the upper house.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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