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Trio elected to Albanese cabinet

FEDERAL MPs Tony Burke (Watson), Linda Burney (Barton) and Jason Clare (Blaxland) will take up roles as ministers in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new cabinet.

Ms Burney is the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Tony Burke will be Leader of the House, as well as Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for the Arts, and Jason Clare is the Minister for Education.
The 23-member cabinet will include “the largest number of women who have ever served in an Australian Cabinet, with 10 women in the Cabinet”, with Richard Marles as the Deputy Prime Minister.
“This is an exciting team,” the Prime Minister said.
“It’s a team which is overflowing, I think, with talent, with people who are absolutely committed to making a difference as Ministers and Assistant Ministers in my Government.”
Mr Clare said education is the most powerful cause for good in this country and “it will be an extraordinary privilege to serve as Minister for Education in an Albanese Labor Government”.
The Prime Minister said that in addition to that, not in the ministry list, but Senator Pat Dodson, the Father of Reconciliation in Australia, will serve as a Special Envoy for Reconciliation and the Implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and will have the responsibility, “along with the Minister Burney, for overseeing the Uluru Statement from the Heart as we move forward, particularly with our plan for a constitutional change, which will require a referendum”.
“Importantly, this is a change which is long overdue, that we need to make. And I can’t think of anyone better than Linda Burney as a Minister and Pat Dodson with that special responsibility to move forward.”