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Australia prime minister rejigs cabinet ahead of election expected in 2025
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday announced a cabinet reshuffle after two senior ministers said they planned to retire at the next election. The reshuffle, the first since the centre-left Labor Party swept to power at a general election in May 2022, marks an attempt by Albanese to refresh his team ahead of the next poll, expected in 2025. “I would expect that this is the team that I will take to the election when it is held sometime in the future,” Albanese said in a televised media conference in Canberra. Among a raft of ministerial changes, Albanese said Tony Burke, already arts minister, ... (full story)