LNP leader’s cabinet includes several changes, including former leader Tim Nicholls as health minister and Fiona Simpson in women’s portfolio
The LNP leader repeatedly promised the shadow cabinet he took to last week’s election would be the cabinet after it.“I’ve said that many times, the cabinet, the shadow cabinet I’m taking to the election, will be the shadow, will be the cabinet after the election, if we’re elected to government,” Crisafulli said on 23 October.The registered nurse Ros Bates held the position in opposition, but has been sworn in as minister for finance, trade, employment and training.
Simpson, who was criticised after a controversial 2002 speech she made in parliament promoting work done to help people “leave the homosexual lifestyle”, also voted against the decriminalisation of abortion in 2018.She will serve as minister for women and women’s economic security, minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships, and minister for multiculturalism.
“They have a compassionate understanding and a desire to get alongside people who choose and who want to leave the homosexual lifestyle. This is about offering them options and not imposing only one set of values on other people.”More than two-thirds of the new cabinet is men, with just six women in the 19-strong ministry.
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