Anthony Albanese cabinet reshuffle: Prime Minister to announce new cabinet and ministry

Anthony Albanese will announce his first reshuffle on Sunday since Labor won power in 2022.

The announcement will be made on Sunday, though hotly tipped to get Ms Burney’s position is Malarndirri McCarthy – an Indigenous senator from the Northern Territory.

This would allow the Government to move beyond the humiliating defeat and try to reframe its policies and goals for Indigenous Australians.

Tasmanian senator Carol Brown announced on Saturday she would step aside from her position as assistant minister for transport and infrastructure.

Ms Brown is stepping back for health reasons and will stay in parliament, but it does create an opening in the outer ministry.

NSW senator Jenny McAllister is tipped to be promoted to the outer ministry while Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy or Veterans Affairs Minister Matt Keogh could be promoted to the Cabinet.

Further openings could be made by sacking people, but it’s unlikely because it would give the Coalition a chance to crow that incompetent ministers are causing the Government to fall apart.

Instead, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles could likely to be moved to other positions, rather than being sacked.

The Opposition has been calling for both of them to be sacked since the High Court’s NZYQ ruling late last year led to convicted criminal asylum seekers being released from indefinite detention because no other country will take them.

Another 72 were convicted of assault and violent offending, including kidnapping and armed robbery, 16 had domestic violence and stalking convictions and 13 committed serious drug offending.

High Court rulings are separate from governmental decisions, but the Labor ministers took the brunt of the criticism.

Murray Watt, who is currently the Agriculture Minister, could be promoted to the Home Affairs portfolio to replace Ms O’Neil.

Another possibility is that Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke could take over  Home Affairs, with Mr Watt then replacing him in industrial relations.