A short time ago Julia Gillard announced her ministry.
Cabinet
Julia Gillard Prime Minister
Wayne Swan Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer
Kevin Rudd Minister for Foreign Affairs
Chris Evans Minister for Jobs, Skills and Workplace Relations
Simon Crean Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, Minister for the Arts
Stephen Smith Minister for Defence
Nicola Roxon Minister for Health and Ageing
Jenny Macklin Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Anthony Albanese Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Digital Productivity
Kim Carr Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science
Penny Wong Minister for Finance and Deregulation
Peter Garrett Minister for Schools, Early Childhood and Youth
Robert McClelland Attorney-General
Joseph Ludwig Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Tony Burke Minister for Sustainable Population, Communities, Environment and Water
Martin Ferguson Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism
Chris Bowen Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Craig Emerson Minister for Trade
Greg Combet Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
Outer Ministry
Tanya Plibersek Minister for Human Services, Minister for Social Inclusion
Brendan O’Connor Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, Minister for Privacy and FOI
Kate Ellis Minister for Employment Participation and Childcare
Mark Arbib Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development Minister for Sport Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness
Nick Sherry Minister for Small Business, Minister Assisting the Minister for Tourism
Warren Snowdon Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence Science and Personnel
Bill Shorten Assistant Treasurer Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation
Mark Butler Minister for Mental Health and Ageing
Gary Gray Special Minister of State
Jason Clare Minister for Defence Materiel
Parliamentary Secretaries
David Bradbury Treasury
Jacinta Collins Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Julie Collins Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Mark Dreyfus Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Cabinet Secretary
Justine Elliot Foreign Affairs and Trade
Don Farrell Sustainable Population, Communities, Environment and Water
David Feeney Defence
Mike Kelly Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Catherine King Health and Ageing, Infrastructure and Transport
Kate Lundy Immigration and Citizenship, Prime Minister and Cabinet
Richard Marles Foreign Affairs and Trade
Jan McLucas Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Who will be acting Minister for Human Services while Plibersek’s on maternity leave, I wonder?
Seems that the female revolution within the ALP starts and ends at the top.
So education is Garrett? What about higher ed.? And where is disability now that Shorten has been promoted?
Smith must be dreading the funerals to come
Arbib responsible for Sport? I thought that was supposed to go to someone with a bit of flair and personality
@rosa I think it’s Gillard’s plan to get him into a leather dress, a la http://bit.ly/a1XqsL
He can channel his more damaging instincts in the correct attire…
Who has ministerial responsibility for tertiary education? Garrett only has schools.
What’s happened to Higher Education and Research? No longer issues for the Gillard government?
Is the role of minister for education really reduced to one of multiple roles of a parliamentary secretary or am I missing something?
Crean has the Arts? Forgive me if I’m wrong, but he doesn’t strike me as a great connoisseur of the arts – not a high priority, we assume?
Carr seems to have lost the Research from Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Anyone know where it has gone?
Which portfolio and Minister will govern Higher Education? Evans in ‘Skills’, or Garrett with ‘Schools’??
Where is tertiary education? Given that Garret is “schools” not education? Is it Kim Carr?
why, oh why, do they insist on having the energy portfolio split from the climate change and energy efficiency portfolio. At this early stage of the “solution process” in Australia, the 2 are inextricably linked.
And where, Mr Ferguson, is the energy white paper that has been so long promised…. you have snuck under the media radar with that one, haven’t you…
I mostly agree with you on the separation of energy and climate change, but…
I see value in separating them to combat the conflation in the media of the problem and the solution. I have read an astonishing number of opinions and articles that can be summarised as ‘climate change is not real because it would cause too much damage to the economy’.
Keeping them separate means the advice on the severity and impact of AGW can be provided independent to te Government response to said problem.
haha Arbib in the sports portfolio. I guess he had to be rewarded with something. The only sports he supports are blood & knife sports. Fencing can look forward to a funding boost!!
I wonder how her renovations are going at the lodge – it doesn’t seem like she has followed through on her promise to renovate the government?