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.
Tony Abbott’s first cabinet pic.twitter.com/qdV9gEnQJ8
— Simon Cullen (@Simon_Cullen) September 16, 2013
The swearing in of the new Ministry will take place on Wednesday morning.