<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled his new cabinet following a reshuffle in the wake of Labor's landslide election win.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Michelle Rowland has emerged as one of the big winners from the reshuffle, moving from the communications portfolio to replace the dumped Mark Dreyfus as attorney-general.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Tanya Plibersek has been shifted away from the environment portfolio, instead becoming social services minister, with Murray Watt taking her place.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-election-2025-results-monique-ryan-kooyong/51d31356-fea8-4088-b52a-a7c664d80540" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Ryan holds on in Kooyong as flurry of close seats called</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Anika Wells, who was promoted to the cabinet before the election, will add communications to her portfolio alongside sport, while Health Minister Mark Butler has taken on responsibility for the NDIS on top of his existing duties.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The official announcement comes after it emerged late last week that senior ministers Dreyfus and Ed Husic, who held the science and industry ministry, had been dumped from the ministry due to maneuvering by Labor's Right faction.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Husic hit out at the decision yesterday, labelling Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, the leader of the Victorian Right, a "factional assassin".</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/new-cabinet-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-announces-labor-ministry-federal-election/f078a4b8-d2b9-4b20-bd19-c1c8fcf8bc90" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/controversial-neurosurgeon-dr-charlie-teo-wants-to-resume-operating-in-australia/b9a4f28b-b1b6-4189-848c-d72aaeae12ae"><strong><span>'Aussies still want me': Charlie Teo wants to resume operating in Australia</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We've had bare-faced ambition and a deputy prime minister wield a factional club to reshape the ministry," Husic told the ABC.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I think people, when they look at a deputy prime minister, they expect to see a statesman, not a factional assassin."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sam Rae, one of the MPs who Husic and Dreyfus made way for, will be the new aged care minister, while Senator Tim Ayres will take Dreyfus' industry and science portfolio.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow morning.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>More to come.</span></em><strong><span></span></strong></div></div>
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