Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the new Federal Ministry in the majority Labor Government. You can follow them on this Twitter list established by Croakey (not all Ministers are on Twitter).
In one way or another, everyone on this list is a “health minister”.
However, the most directly relevant portfolios include:
- Mark Butler: Minister for Health and Aged Care
- Ged Kearney: Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care
- Emma McBride: Assistant Minister for Mental Health, Assistant Minister for Rural and Regional Health
- Anika Wells: Minister for Aged Care, Minister for Sport
- Linda Burney: Minister for Indigenous Australians
- Senator Malarndirri McCarthy: Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health
- Bill Shorten: Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Minister for Government Services.
Senator Pat Dodson is not in the Ministry but will serve as a Special Envoy for Reconciliation and the Implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, working with Minister Linda Burney on this.
Other non-Ministerial appointments include Senator Nita Green, as Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef, and Susan Templeman as a Special Envoy for the Arts.
Asked about Housing becoming a Cabinet portfolio, Albanese said: “If you follow my history in politics, housing has been a passion of mine. It’s also been a passion of mine that the Federal Government should be playing a role in in areas like housing and urban development and those issues. And that will be an absolute priority of my Government.”
Cabinet
Anthony Albanese: Prime Minister
Richard Marles: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Defence
Senator Penny Wong: Minister for Foreign Affairs
Dr Jim Chalmers: Treasurer
Senator Katy Gallagher: Minister for Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Women
Senator Don Farrell: Minister for Trade and Tourism, Special Minister of State
Tony Burke: Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for the Arts
Mark Butler: Minister for Health and Aged Care
Chris Bowen: Minister for Climate Change and Energy
Tanya Plibersek: Minister for the Environment and Water
Catherine King: Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Linda Burney: Minister for Indigenous Australians
Amanda Rishworth: Minister for Social Services
Bill Shorten: Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Minister for Government Services
Mark Dreyfus QC: Attorney-General, Cabinet Secretary
Brendan O’Connor: Minister for Skills and Training
Jason Clare: Minister for Education
Julie Collins: Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness, Minister for Small Business
Michelle Rowland: Minister for Communications
Madeleine King: Minister for Resources, Minister for Northern Australia
Senator Murray Watt: Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Minister for Emergency Management
Ed Husic: Minister for Industry and Science
Clare O’Neil: Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security
Outer Ministry
Matt Keogh: Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Minister for Defence Personnel
Pat Conroy: Minister for Defence Industry, Minister for International Development and the Pacific
Stephen Jones: Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Financial Services
Andrew Giles: Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Dr Anne Aly: Minister for Early Childhood Education, Minister for Youth
Anika Wells: Minister for Aged Care, Minister for Sport
Kristy McBain: Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories
Assistant Ministers
Justine Elliot: Assistant Minister for Social Services, Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence
Matt Thistlethwaite: Assistant Minister for Defence, Assistant Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Assistant Minister for the Republic
Dr Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Patrick Gorman: Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister
Senator Jenny McAllister: Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy
Senator Carol Brown: Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Ged Kearney: Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care
Emma McBride: Assistant Minister for Mental Health, Assistant Minister for Rural and Regional Health
Senator Malarndirri McCarthy: Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health
Senator Tim Ayres: Assistant Minister for Trade, Assistant Minister for Manufacturing
Senator Anthony Chisholm: Assistant Minister for Education, Assistant Minister for Regional Development
Tim Watts: Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs
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