Good afternoon. Anthony Albanese says Tanya Plibersek is “very positive” about her new role as social services minister,after the prime minister revealed his new frontbenchin the wake of Labor’s emphatic election victory. Other big changes in the new cabinet include Michelle Rowland becoming the new attorney general and health minister Mark Butler getting the NDISadded to his health portfolio.
Anne Aly and Tim Ayres,two rising stars of the left, also enter cabinet in key portfolios – Ayres taking Ed Husic’s portfolio of industry and Aly taking small business, as well as multicultural affairs. Follow all thechanges and reaction in our live blog.
Meanwhile, the Nationalshave re-elected David Littleproud as leader, rejecting Matt Canavan’s challenge for the top job. Kevin Hogan replaces Perin Davey as the party’s deputy, while Bridget McKenzie will lead the party in the Senate.
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Marty Zambotto, a 29-year-old Sydney-based singer-songwriter, went viral in 2023 after he uploaded a clip to TikTok of himself performing his song Mrs Hollywood while busking around Sydney. Now he’s about to represent Australia at Eurovision in Basel, Switzerland,with his song Milkshake Man, an ode to self-confidence.
“There’s just not credible evidence that droughts or floods are getting worse in this country … is that the science?”
Nationals leadership challengerMatt Canavan,whose home state of Queensland wasbattered by ex-tropical cyclone Alfredjust before the election campaign, has claimed he has “always” accepted the link between carbon dioxide emissions and temperature risesbut appeared to doubt that natural disasters were getting worseas a consequence of the climate crisis.
A group of Afrikaners left Johannesburg on Sunday on a private charter plane to the US –the first to be relocatedafter Donald Trump’s February executive order accused South Africa’s Black-led government of racial discrimination. The South African government said it was “completely false” that Afrikaners were being persecuted.
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