Anthony Albanese cabinet reshuffle: PM to announce new cabinet and ministry

Anthony Albanese will announce his first reshuffle since the Labor Party came to power in 2022 on Sunday.

The announcement will be made on Sunday, although the most likely candidate to take Burney’s place is Malarndirri McCarthy, an Indigenous senator from the Northern Territory.

This would allow the Government to move beyond the humiliating defeat and try to rethink its policies and objectives for Indigenous Australians.

Tasmanian Senator Carol Brown announced on Saturday that she will be stepping down as Associate Minister for Transport and Infrastructure.

Ms Brown is stepping down for health reasons and will remain in Parliament, but this creates a vacancy in the Foreign Office.

NSW Senator Jenny McAllister is believed to be promoted to the Foreign Office, while Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy or Veterans Affairs Minister Matt Keogh could be promoted to Cabinet.

Further openings could be achieved by sacking people, but this is unlikely because that would give the Coalition the opportunity to boast that incompetent ministers are causing the Government to collapse.

Instead, Home Secretary Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles are likely to be moved to other posts, rather than sacked.

The opposition has been calling for both to be sacked since the High Court’s NZYQ ruling late last year led to convicted criminal asylum seekers being released from indefinite detention because no other country will take them.

Another 72 were convicted of assault and violent crimes including kidnapping and armed robbery, 16 had convictions for domestic violence and stalking and 13 committed serious drug-related offenses.

Supreme Court rulings are independent of government decisions, but labour ministers bore the brunt of the criticism.

Murray Watt, who is currently Agriculture Minister, could be promoted to the Home Affairs portfolio to replace Ms O’Neil.

Another possibility is that Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke would take over at Home Affairs and Watt would replace him at industrial relations.