FAMILY PHOTO: State and territory leaders met with the PM last night ahead of Anthony Albanese's first national cabinet today. Health and the energy crisis will be high on the agenda, with a leaders press conference set for later today. 9News MORE:
State and territory leaders gathered at The Lodge in Canberra on Thursday night before a formal reunion of the pandemic-inspired body.
A 50-50 split between the Commonwealth and state governments for pandemic-related hospital expenses is due to run out in September and the leaders are pushing for that to be extended. Amid continued power shortages in most of Australia, it's impossible for the energy crisis not to feature on the agenda, which Albanese confirmed.
There have also been calls from the Australian Medical Association to scrap the cabinet's secrecy provisions, something Malinauskas said he was keeping an open mind about.
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