The Parliament of Australia website has updated its site with a new Ministry list to reflect the change in PM. The bad news is that the PDF link – found here – still has Stephen Conroy as Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy.
The question now is whether or not the list is reflective of cabinet changes, or merely a quickly updated list to reflect the change in PM and Deputy. At her press conference, Prime Minister Gillard announced that she would announce ministry changes “at an appropriate time”. Maybe it’s just us, but a few hours later is hardly an appropriate time.
In any case, if it’s the former, it’s a huge disappointment for the country. If it’s the latter, there’s still hope we’ll see Kate Lundy take the portfolio.
UPDATE: It looks like this updated list is just a temporary update. I suppose we should let the new PM actually get some sleep before she reshuffles the cabinet, hey?
Quozl
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 4:52 PMIf the Ginger does one good thing before being voted out at the next federal election for the love of god let her get Conroy out of the Communications ministry and get Lundy in.
BM-dog
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 5:03 PMJG said at the start of question time (when she presented the document) only that it reflects the change in PM and Deputy PM. The full cabinet reshuffle will take at least a day or two to finalise – you can tell that the current list is not the final arrangement because Gillard is still listed in her old portfolios of Education and Workplace Relations, which she obviously won’t be keeping now she is PM.
matt
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 5:53 PMMy god! that’s brilliant!
we get Lundy to pretend she supports Conroy and all his policies, then we push for a vote of no confidence in JG and push Conroy to be her replacement! then when he becomes PM, Conroy hands over IT to Lundy, and then she changes her tune back to logic and common sense, then when Conroy as PM goes against her, he will be accused of the same thing Rudd did, and get kicked all the way out to the back bench! MUAHAHAHAHAH!
David Anderton
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 10:35 PMi have already emailed her suggesting a new communications minister
Heath
Friday, June 25, 2010 at 9:17 AMI did too. It mightn’t make a difference but anything to get rid of Conroy.
Frogztar
Friday, June 25, 2010 at 9:31 AMPhew! For a moment there, I thought our portals were again going to be at risk. After all, Conroy is the only one who can stop the spams and scams coming through…
James-Mac
Friday, June 25, 2010 at 12:08 PMThere’s no denying Conroy is an embarrassment in his current portfolio… but is he bad enough that his screw ups are getting mainstream media coverage?
Tech blogs track his failings… but in the realworld of Howards “Battlers” and Rudds “Working Families” he’s not very well known.
Henry
Friday, June 25, 2010 at 2:11 PMThe reason they’ve put up a temp list is because Parliament can’t rise unless there’s a ministry.
Expect the refreshed list today or tomorrow.