Here’s Your New Communications Minister, Australia

Under the Abbott-led government, your new Communications Minister will be…

It’s Malcolm Turnbull! To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

In another unsurprising move, former Optus executive-turned MP, Paul Fletcher has been elevataed from his informal role as the so-called “Shadow-Shadow Communications Minister” up to the role of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications. That was a role filled in the last government by Ed Husic MP now in Opposition.

Here’s the press release as it went out at the press conference.

The swearing in of the new Ministry will take place on Wednesday morning.


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