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Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
of the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
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The Ministry was sworn in by the 24th Governor-General of Australia
Governor-General of Australia
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
Major-General
Major General (Australia)
Major General is a senior rank of the Australian Army, and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of Major General. It is the third-highest active rank of the Australian Army, and is considered to be equivalent to a two-star rank...
Michael Jeffery
Michael Jeffery
Major General Philip Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC was the 24th Governor-General of Australia , the first Australian career soldier to be appointed governor-general...
on 3 December 2007, following the 2007 election, and it ended on 24 June 2010 when the deputy leader Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillard is the 27th and current Prime Minister of Australia, in office since June 2010.Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales and migrated with her family to Adelaide, Australia in 1966, attending Mitcham Demonstration School and Unley High School. In 1982 Gillard moved...
became Prime Minister.
Cabinet
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| Kevin Rudd Kevin Rudd Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010... MP |
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| Julia Gillard Julia Gillard Julia Eileen Gillard is the 27th and current Prime Minister of Australia, in office since June 2010.Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales and migrated with her family to Adelaide, Australia in 1966, attending Mitcham Demonstration School and Unley High School. In 1982 Gillard moved... MP |
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| Wayne Swan Wayne Swan Wayne Maxwell Swan is the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996, and then re elected in 1998 till today , representing the Division of Lilley, QLD... MP |
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| Senator Chris Evans Chris Evans (Australian politician) Christopher Vaughan Evans is an Australian politician and a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:... |
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| Senator John Faulkner John Faulkner John Philip Faulkner is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since 1989, representing the state of New South Wales. Following a period serving on various Senate Committees and as Deputy Whip, he was a Minister in the Keating Labor government 1993-96... |
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| Simon Crean Simon Crean Simon Findlay Crean is an Australian politician, and the current Minister for the Arts and Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government in the Australian Federal Government. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level,... MP |
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| Stephen Smith Stephen Smith (Australian politician) Stephen Francis Smith , is the Australian Minister for Defence. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Perth, Western Australia.... MP |
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| Joel Fitzgibbon Joel Fitzgibbon Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Hunter in New South Wales. From December 2007 to June 2009 he was the Minister for Defence in the Rudd Ministry... MP |
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| Nicola Roxon Nicola Roxon Nicola Louise Roxon is an Australian politician, and is the Minister for Health and Ageing. She has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998, representing the Division of Gellibrand, in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.-Early and personal life:She... MP |
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| Jenny Macklin Jenny Macklin Jennifer Louise Macklin , is an Australian politician. She is Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in the Gillard Ministry... MP |
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| Lindsay Tanner Lindsay Tanner Lindsay James Tanner is a former Australian member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Melbourne, Victoria, for the Australian Labor Party, having first won the seat at the 1993 federal election. He was a member of the Australian Government from 3 December 2007, serving as... MP |
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| Anthony Albanese Anthony Albanese Anthony Norman Albanese , Australian politician, who serves as Leader of the House of Representatives and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in the Gillard Ministry... MP |
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| Senator Stephen Conroy Stephen Conroy Stephen Michael Conroy is an Australian politician and the current Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in the Gillard Ministry... |
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| Senator Kim Carr Kim Carr Kim John Carr is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since April 1993, representing the state of Victoria. He was elected to the Senate at the March 1993 election, and was due to take his seat on 1 July... |
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| Senator Penny Wong Penny Wong Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong , is an Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia and the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Wong was the first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. Her appointment was amended on 26 February 2010, by the Prime Minister, to the... |
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| Peter Garrett Peter Garrett Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002... MP |
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| Robert McClelland Robert McClelland (Australian politician) Robert Bruce McClelland is the Attorney-General of Australia. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of theAustralian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Barton, New South Wales... MP |
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| Senator Joe Ludwig Joe Ludwig Senator the Hon Joseph William Ludwig , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1999, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Biography:... |
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| Tony Burke Tony Burke Anthony Stephen 'Tony' Burke is an Australian politician representing the Labor Party, and the current Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities . He first entered public office in 2003 as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council... MP |
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| Martin Ferguson Martin Ferguson Martin John Ferguson AM , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Batman, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, the son of Jack Ferguson, who was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1976... MP |
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| Chris Bowen Chris Bowen Christopher Eyles "Chris" Bowen , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Prospect in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election... MP |
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Outer ministry
- Bob DebusBob DebusRobert John "Bob" Debus AM , a former Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the Australian Labor Party. Debus has been a minister in both the Australian and New South Wales governments...
MP: Minister for Home Affairs (until 9 June 2009) - Chris BowenChris BowenChristopher Eyles "Chris" Bowen , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Prospect in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election...
MP: Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs (until 9 June 2009) - Alan GriffinAlan GriffinAlan Peter Griffin , an Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Corinella, Victoria 1993–96 and the Division of Bruce, Victoria, since March 1996. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria,...
MP: Minister for Veterans' Affairs; Minister for Defence Personnel (from 1 April 2010) - Tanya PlibersekTanya PlibersekTanya Joan Plibersek, MP , is an Australian politician with the Australian Labor Party, and Federal Minister for Social Inclusion and Minister for Human Services. She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the seat of Sydney, New South Wales...
MP: Minister for Housing; Minister for the Status of Women - Brendan O'Connor MP: Minister for Employment Participation (until 9 June 2009). Minister for Home Affairs (from 9 June 2009)
- Warren SnowdonWarren SnowdonWarren Edward Snowdon is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives. He represented the Division of Northern Territory from July 1987 to March 1996, and from October 1998 to November 2001.Since November 2001 he has represented the...
MP: Minister for Defence Science and Personnel (until 9 June 2009); Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery (from 9 June 2009) - Craig EmersonCraig EmersonCraig Anthony Emerson , Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election...
MP: Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy; Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Minister assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation. (from 9 June 2009) - Senator Nick SherryNick SherryNicholas John Sherry , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania since July 1990, representing the Australian Labor Party. Sherry was sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer on 9 June 2009, after serving as the first Australian Minister for...
: Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law (until 9 June 2009); Assistant Treasurer (from 9 June 2009) - Justine ElliotJustine ElliotMaria Justine Elliot, MP is an Australian politician who was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Richmond, New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election....
MP: Minister for Ageing - Kate EllisKate EllisKatherine Margaret "Kate" Ellis, MP is an Australian politician, representing the federal division of Adelaide since 2004 and is currently the Minister for Employment Participation and Childcare and the Minister for the Status of Women in the Gillard Government.-Early life and career:Ellis was...
MP: Minister for Youth and Sport (until 9 June 2009); Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth; Minister for Sport (from 9 June 2009) - Greg CombetGreg CombetGregory Ivan Combet AM MP is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007...
MP: Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science (9 June 2009 – 1 April 2010); Minister for Defence Material and Science (from 1 April 2010); Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change (9 June 2009 – 8 March 2010); Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (from 8 March 2010) - Senator Mark ArbibMark ArbibMark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...
: Minister for Employment Participation; Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Government Service Delivery (from 9 June 2009)
Parliamentary Secretaries
- Maxine McKewMaxine McKewMaxine Margaret McKew , is a former Australian politician and journalist; she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the member of the House of...
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care (Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio)(until 9 June 2009). Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (from 9 June 2009) - Greg CombetGreg CombetGregory Ivan Combet AM MP is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007...
AM MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement (to 25 February 2009); Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change (from 25 February 2009 to 9 June 2009)(see Outer Ministry) - Mike KellyMike Kelly (politician)Michael Joseph "Mike" Kelly AM, MP , is an Australian politician, elected to the Australian House of Representatives as member for the Division of Eden-Monaro, New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party at the 2007 federal election...
AM MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support; Parliamentary Secretary for Water (from 25 February 2009) - Gary GrayGary Gray (Australian politician)Gary Gray AO , Australian politician, is the Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Brand in Western Australia in the Australian House of Representatives. Gray is currently the Special Minister of State and the Special Minister of State for the Public Service and Integrity.Gary...
AOOrder of AustraliaThe Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government portfolio)(until 9 June 2009). Parliamentary Secretary for Western and Northern Australia (from 9 June 2009) - Bill ShortenBill ShortenWilliam Richard "Bill" Shorten is an Australian politician, the Member for Maribyrnong in the Australian Parliament, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Disability and Children's Services in the Rudd/Gillard Government...
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services (Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs portfolio); Parliamentary Secretary for Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction (from 25 February 2009) - Bob McMullanBob McMullanRobert Francis McMullan is an Australian former politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Senate and the House of Representatives....
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance - Duncan KerrDuncan KerrDuncan James Colquhoun Kerr SC is an Australian Senior Counsel and former politician.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Kerr was educated at the University of Tasmania, where at one stage he was President of the Tasmania University Union and has degrees in both law and social work...
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs (until 14 December 2009) - Anthony ByrneAnthony ByrneThe Holt electorate covers an area of approximately 145 km2, in Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs, extending from Lysterfield South in the north to Cranbourne in the south....
MP: Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister; Parliamentary Secretary for Trade (from 25 February 2009) - Senator Ursula StephensUrsula StephensUrsula Mary Stephens is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Australian Senate for New South Wales in November 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party. She began her term on 1 July 2002....
: Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion and the Voluntary Sector; Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Prime Minister for Social Inclusion (to 9 June 2009); Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion, Parliamentary Secretary for the Voluntary Sector (from 9 June 2009) - Senator Mark ArbibMark ArbibMark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...
: Parliamentary Secretary for Government Service Delivery (Prime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio) (from 25 February 2009 to 9 June 2009) (see Outer Ministry) - Senator Jan McLucasJan McLucasJan Elizabeth McLucas is an Australian politician, representing Queensland and the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate.-Biography:McLucas's parents are Ronald and Audrey McLucas...
: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing (to 9 June 2009) - Laurie FergusonLaurie FergusonLaurie Donald Thomas Ferguson , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing Reid until 2010 and Werriwa thereafter, both in New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in the...
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services - Jason ClareJason ClareJason Dean Clare is the Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney. He won election in the 2007 Australian federal election....
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Employment (from 9 June 2009) - Mark ButlerMark ButlerMark Christopher Butler has been the Australian Labor Party representative for the electoral division of Port Adelaide in north-western Adelaide, South Australia since the 2007 federal election, succeeding prior Labor MP Rod Sawford....
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Health (from 9 June 2009) - Richard MarlesRichard MarlesRichard Donald Marles is the Australian Labor Party member for the Victorian federal seat of Corio, based on Geelong. Marles is the son of Donald Marles, a former headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and Faye Marles, Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner and later Chancellor of the...
MP: Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry (from 9 June 2009) - John MurphyJohn Murphy (Australian politician)John Paul Murphy , Australian politician, is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing Lowe and then Reid, New South Wales. He was born in Dunedoo, New South Wales...
: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade (to 25 February 2009)
Changes from Shadow Ministry
Peter GarrettPeter Garrett
Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002...
retained his Environment portfolio but lost his climate change and water responsibilities, which instead went to Senator Penny Wong
Penny Wong
Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong , is an Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia and the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Wong was the first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. Her appointment was amended on 26 February 2010, by the Prime Minister, to the...
.
Three previous shadow ministers – Arch Bevis
Arch Bevis
Archibald Ronald "Arch" Bevis is an Australian politician who was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2010, representing the Division of Brisbane, Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, and educated at Ithaca Creek State Primary School and The Gap State High School...
, Kate Lundy
Kate Lundy
Kate Alexandra Lundy is a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Capital Territory.Born in Sydney, Lundy dropped out of Year 11 without telling her parents and went to work on a construction site...
and Kerry O'Brien
Kerry O'Brien (politician)
Kerry Williams Kelso O'Brien , is an Australian politician. O'Brien has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania since September 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Background:O'Brien was born in Sydney...
– were relegated to the back bench, while Jan McLucas
Jan McLucas
Jan Elizabeth McLucas is an Australian politician, representing Queensland and the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate.-Biography:McLucas's parents are Ronald and Audrey McLucas...
, Laurie Ferguson
Laurie Ferguson
Laurie Donald Thomas Ferguson , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing Reid until 2010 and Werriwa thereafter, both in New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in the...
and Bob McMullan
Bob McMullan
Robert Francis McMullan is an Australian former politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Senate and the House of Representatives....
were demoted from ministerial roles to parliamentary secretary positions.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith (Australian politician)
Stephen Francis Smith , is the Australian Minister for Defence. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Perth, Western Australia....
moved from Education to Foreign Affairs, replacing Robert McClelland
Robert McClelland (Australian politician)
Robert Bruce McClelland is the Attorney-General of Australia. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of theAustralian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Barton, New South Wales...
who became Attorney-General.
Senator Joe Ludwig moved from Shadow Attorney-General to Minister for Human Services, while Tanya Plibersek went from Shadow Minister for Human Services, Housing, Youth and Women to Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women.
While the former Shadow Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner
Lindsay Tanner
Lindsay James Tanner is a former Australian member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Melbourne, Victoria, for the Australian Labor Party, having first won the seat at the 1993 federal election. He was a member of the Australian Government from 3 December 2007, serving as...
retained his portfolio, the ministry and department underwent a name change to Finance and Deregulation.
Parliamentary Secretary reshuffle (February 2009)
On 25 February 2009, Prime Minister Kevin RuddKevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
announced a reshuffle of his Parliamentary Secretaries (the lowest ministerial rank), which was attributed to the resignation of John Murphy, who had been the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade.
Greg Combet
Greg Combet
Gregory Ivan Combet AM MP is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007...
's responsibilities for Defence Procurement were taken over by Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon
Joel Fitzgibbon
Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Hunter in New South Wales. From December 2007 to June 2009 he was the Minister for Defence in the Rudd Ministry...
, and he moved to the Climate Change Department as Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change (with a focus on emissions trading
Emissions trading
Emissions trading is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants....
).
Mike Kelly
Mike Kelly
Mike Kelly is a columnist for The Record, a newspaper serving Bergen County, New Jersey. He is also the author of Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town, a book about the 1990 shooting in Teaneck, New Jersey of Phillip Pannell, an African-American teenager, by Gary...
retained his portfolio of Defence Support and became Parliamentary Secretary for Water, while Anthony Byrne
Anthony Byrne
The Holt electorate covers an area of approximately 145 km2, in Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs, extending from Lysterfield South in the north to Cranbourne in the south....
, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, also became Parliamentary Secretary for Trade.
The reshuffle also saw the elevation of Senator Mark Arbib
Mark Arbib
Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...
, to the ministry as Parliamentary Secretary for Government Service Delivery. Bill Shorten
Bill Shorten
William Richard "Bill" Shorten is an Australian politician, the Member for Maribyrnong in the Australian Parliament, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Disability and Children's Services in the Rudd/Gillard Government...
added Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction to his responsibilities of Disabilities and Children's Services.
Reshuffle in June 2009
On 4 June 2009, Defence Minister Joel FitzgibbonJoel Fitzgibbon
Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Hunter in New South Wales. From December 2007 to June 2009 he was the Minister for Defence in the Rudd Ministry...
resigned from Cabinet, following revelations that his brother, the Chief Executive Officer of health insurer NIB, had business meetings with Defence officials in Mr Fitzgibbon's office, breaching the Federal Government's ministerial code of conduct. This resulted in a limited reshuffle, with PM Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
announcing Labor veteran Senator John Faulkner
John Faulkner
John Philip Faulkner is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since 1989, representing the state of New South Wales. Following a period serving on various Senate Committees and as Deputy Whip, he was a Minister in the Keating Labor government 1993-96...
's appointment as Minister for Defence, the first person from the Left faction of the ALP to hold the position since World War II.
As a result of Faulkner's appointment, Human Services Minister Senator Joe Ludwig
Joe Ludwig
Senator the Hon Joseph William Ludwig , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1999, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Biography:...
moved into the position of Cabinet Secretary and Special Minister of State. Chris Bowen
Chris Bowen
Christopher Eyles "Chris" Bowen , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Prospect in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election...
, who was the Assistant Treasurer, was promoted to the Cabinet as Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. Bowen's former portfolio of Assistant Treasurer went to Senator Nick Sherry
Nick Sherry
Nicholas John Sherry , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania since July 1990, representing the Australian Labor Party. Sherry was sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer on 9 June 2009, after serving as the first Australian Minister for...
, while Small Business Minister Craig Emerson
Craig Emerson
Craig Anthony Emerson , Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election...
also became Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs.
Parliamentary Secretaries Greg Combet
Greg Combet
Gregory Ivan Combet AM MP is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007...
and Senator Mark Arbib
Mark Arbib
Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...
were elevated to the Outer Ministry, with Combet as the big winner becoming Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Senator Arbib, the former NSW Secretary of the ALP, became Minister for Employment Participation and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Government Service Delivery. Kate Ellis
Kate Ellis
Katherine Margaret "Kate" Ellis, MP is an Australian politician, representing the federal division of Adelaide since 2004 and is currently the Minister for Employment Participation and Childcare and the Minister for the Status of Women in the Gillard Government.-Early life and career:Ellis was...
's portfolio of Youth and Sport was altered, and she became Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth and Minister for Sport, while former ABC presenter Maxine McKew
Maxine McKew
Maxine Margaret McKew , is a former Australian politician and journalist; she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the member of the House of...
became Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Warren Snowdon
Warren Snowdon
Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives. He represented the Division of Northern Territory from July 1987 to March 1996, and from October 1998 to November 2001.Since November 2001 he has represented the...
was promoted from Defence Personnel to Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery.
At this time Bob Debus
Bob Debus
Robert John "Bob" Debus AM , a former Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the Australian Labor Party. Debus has been a minister in both the Australian and New South Wales governments...
, the Minister for Home Affairs who had just been elected at the 2007 Federal Election, announced his retirement from the ministry (having previously served as a senior minister in the NSW Parliament for many years). Brendan O'Connor was promoted to take his place.
Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing Jan McLucas
Jan McLucas
Jan Elizabeth McLucas is an Australian politician, representing Queensland and the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate.-Biography:McLucas's parents are Ronald and Audrey McLucas...
, also chose to resign from her role. Three new MPs were appointed as Parliamentary Secretaries: Jason Clare
Jason Clare
Jason Dean Clare is the Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney. He won election in the 2007 Australian federal election....
(Employment), Mark Butler
Mark Butler
Mark Christopher Butler has been the Australian Labor Party representative for the electoral division of Port Adelaide in north-western Adelaide, South Australia since the 2007 federal election, succeeding prior Labor MP Rod Sawford....
(Health) and Richard Marles
Richard Marles
Richard Donald Marles is the Australian Labor Party member for the Victorian federal seat of Corio, based on Geelong. Marles is the son of Donald Marles, a former headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and Faye Marles, Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner and later Chancellor of the...
(Innovation and Industry).
The new ministers were all sworn in on 9 June.
Changes in December 2009 and in 2010
On 14 December 2009 Duncan KerrDuncan Kerr
Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr SC is an Australian Senior Counsel and former politician.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Kerr was educated at the University of Tasmania, where at one stage he was President of the Tasmania University Union and has degrees in both law and social work...
's appointment as Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance was terminated following his announcement that he would retire at the next election.
On 8 March 2010, Peter Garrett's title was changed from Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts to Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts. This was in response to the perceived mishandling of one of the government's stimulus programs. Several of Garrett's environmental responsibilities were transferred to Senator Penny Wong, whose title changed from Minister for Climate Change and Water to Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water.
On 1 April 2010 Greg Combet became Minister for Defence Materiel and Science (losing "personnel") and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Alan Griffin added Minister for Defence Personnel to his position as Minister for Veterans' Affairs
Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)
The Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs oversees income support, compensation, care and commemoration programs for more than 400,000 veterans and their widows, widowers and dependants....
.
On 14 April 2010 Tony Burke was appointed the inaugural Minister for Population.