Malcolm Turnbull was on Tuesday sworn in as Australia’s Prime minister for a second term along with a jumbo Cabinet after a narrow election victory that left him with the slimmest of majorities in the parliament.
The Liberal/National coalition Party leader Turnbull was sworn in as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister by the Governor General Peter Cosgrove in Government house in Canberra. Turnbull broadly stuck with the team of ministers the prime minister took to the federal election but has handed some cabinet members new roles.
Said to be one of the largest frontbenches in Australian history that include 23 ministers, the cabinet has been described by Turnbull as the team to “deliver a strong and secure future”. As the re-elected Coalition Government we have a clear mandate to proceed with our policies.
“We are committed to three years of strong, stable economic leadership so we can provide both the economic security and the national security that Australians expect and deserve,” Turnbull had said on Monday ahead of his swearing in ceremony.
“We will be judged in 2019 by the Australian people as to whether we have delivered on the plans and the programs and the investments that we have promised and set out and described in the lead-up to the election.”
“My team will now get on with the job of governing - constructively working and engaging with the other parties in the Parliament, to deliver a strong and secure future - the strong economic leadership that Australians expect and will get from my Government,” he said.