{"id":24869,"date":"2022-06-01T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=24869"},"modified":"2022-06-01T03:16:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:16:12","slug":"new-australian-government-includes-record-13-women-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=24869","title":{"rendered":"New Australian government includes record 13 women ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ABC News:- <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A record 13 women, including the first female Muslim, were sworn in as ministers in Australia<\/a>‘s new government Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ceremony conducted by Governor-General David Hurley in the capital, Canberra, came 11 days after new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the center-left Labor Party to an election<\/a> victory over the incumbent conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProud to lead an inclusive government that is as diverse as Australia itself,\u201d Albanese wrote on Twitter. \u201cWelcome to all these new Labor members.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Aly was sworn in as Australia\u2019s first female Muslim minister while Ed Husic became the first Muslim to serve in Cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Burney became the first woman, and only the second Indigenous person, to serve as Indigenous Affairs minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong were sworn in early last week so they could fly to Tokyo for a summit with President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 30 ministers appointed to the new government, nearly half are women. Women also hold a record 10 spots out of 23 in core Cabinet roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some votes still to be counted from last month’s election<\/a>, the Labor Party has secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the 150-seat House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese’s Cabinet includes some new faces as well as some lawmakers who served in the previous Labor government that last held power nine years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have an overflow of talent on our side of the parliament,” Albanese said, adding that “it\u2019s the most experienced incoming Labor government in our history since federation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese has been getting support from an unusual source: British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg wrote on Twitter that he’d awoken to find that “the new prime minister of Australia had quoted my lyrics in his first press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg went on to say he wasn’t surprised as he’s been friends with Albanese for more than 20 years after they met at a theater in Sydney and bonded over a shared love of music and compassionate politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe challenges he faces are daunting and I don’t envy him his success,\u201d Bragg wrote. \u201cSome of us just sing about making the world a better place \u2014 he now has the responsibility of delivering on that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC News:- A record 13 women, including the first female Muslim, were sworn in as ministers in Australia‘s new government Wednesday. The ceremony conducted by Governor-General David Hurley in the capital, Canberra, came 11 days after new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the center-left Labor Party to an election victory over the incumbent conservatives. \u201cProud to lead an inclusive government that is as diverse as Australia itself,\u201d Albanese wrote on Twitter. \u201cWelcome to all these new Labor members.\u201d Anne Aly was sworn in as Australia\u2019s first female Muslim minister while Ed Husic became the first Muslim to serve in Cabinet…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24871,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24869\/revisions\/24871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}