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Who are the new cabinet ministers for both of Morrison government and the Labor party?

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and leader of Opposition Party Anthony Albanese announced their cabinet ministers Source: AAP

So how does the Morisson government cabinet looks like?

Scott Morrison has sworn to be Australian new Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister is still Michael McCormack.

Ken Wyatt is assigned to Minister for Indigenous Affairs.

There are 7 women in the Morrison cabinet.

Josh Frydenberg is treasurer while Peter Dutton is Home Affairs Minister.

Mathias Cormann is Finance minister.

Briget McKenzie is the new Agriculture Minister.

David Littleproud is the Minister for Water Resources.

Christian Porter is the Minister for Industrial Relation and also the Attorney General.

Greg Hunt is the Minister of Health.

Michaelia Cash is the Minister for Small Business.

Arthur Sinodinos will be appointed to be the Australian new ambassador to the US.

While Mitch Fifield will be the Australian new ambassador to the United Nations.

Malisa Price is the Minister for Environment.

Paul Fletcher is to take the Communication portfolio.

Linda Reynolds to be Defence Minister to replace Christopher Pyne. 

Stuart Roberts to be Cabinet and Minister for Government Services and National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Simon Birmingham is the Trade Minister

Please see more from ABC news.

After Labor has confirmed Anthony Albanese to be its new leader he promises that he would like to take Labor Party that is focus on Australians like its predecessors. It will have to restructure and reconsider what went wrong that made Labor lost the 18 May 2019 federal election.

Mr. Albanese has announced some of his frontbench shadow ministers, which some expected that it will not much different from the Morrison's which has sworn by the Governor General Peter Cosgrove.

So who is the new Labor front bench?

Anthony Albanese says that its cabinet is balanced with 12 women and 12 men.

Richard Marles holds defense portfolio and as deputy leader of the Labor Party.

Though former Labor leader Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen hard-line policies have cost Labor defeat its bid to be the new alternative Australian government and Mr. Shorten has accepted defeat and say sorry to those who are loyal to Labor Party, he is still assigned to shadow minister for National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) while Chris Bowen takes on Health portfolio but moving Catherine King to Infrastructure and Jim Chalmers to treasurer.

The biggest winner is Kristina Keneally that she is promoted to shadow minister for Home Affairs and as deputy leader of Labor Senate.

Tanya Plibersek takes on Education and training while Penny Wong holds Labor Senate president and Foreign Affairs.

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