Malcolm Turnbull - AP

Sept. 21, p2

Australia'€™s new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday announced sweeping changes to his first Cabinet and promoted more women, including Australia'€™s first female defense minister.

Turnbull increased the number of female Cabinet ministers from two to five, including Defense Minister Marise Payne.

The government'€™s unpopular chief economics minister, Treasurer Joe Hockey, has been replaced by Social Services Minister Scott Morrison.

The center-right government'€™s popularity crashed in opinion polls and never recovered after Hockey unveiled his first annual budget in May last year. The budget was widely criticized as unfair toward the poor, and a hostile Senate blocked key measures.

Your comments:

If the Abbott government proved anything, it is that is impossible to govern Australia from a far-right position. Turnbull is obviously trying to prove his moderate credentials.

The real change I would like to see is a move away from coal toward alternative energy. As a desert nation, we should be world leaders in solar energy. It is only through cronyism that coal has so much political power.

Lasem Benny

A new prime capitalist bureaucratic government of the Australian mind. Its first task is how to finally relieve First Australians of all identity, titles, rights and property for the sole benefit of the Anglosphere.

Jintao

I don'€™t care if the Cabinet ministers are women or men; it is how they perform in their jobs that really counts to me.

Eddy Saf

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