Albo Names His Cabinet
Andrew Weldon
A day after the election, the new prime minister named the first five members of his cabinet, to allow him and the new foreign minister, Penny Wong, to travel to the Quad Leaders security group meeting in Japan. When the rest of the Cabinet was eventually sworn in, it included a record 10 women.
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