New Australia prime minister Malcolm Turnbull set to appoint more female ministers

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Australia’s new prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has signalled that more women will be included in his first cabinet to be sworn in next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There is no greater enthusiast than me for seeing more women in positions of power and influence in parliament&comma; in ministries right across the country&comma;” Mr Turnbull said in his first news conference as prime minister&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am very committed to that&comma; but I am not going to say any more about the new ministerial arrangements&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Turnbull replaced his unpopular predecessor Tony Abbott in a surprise leadership vote of MPs in the ruling conservative Liberal Party on Monday night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Abbott was widely criticised for including only two women in his 19-member cabinet&comma; foreign minister Julie Bishop and health minister Sussan Ley&period; Ms Bishop was the only woman in Mr Abbott’s first cabinet in 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Turnbull said there would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;some changes” in his cabinet when it is sworn in on Monday&comma; but gave no indication of the scale&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He declined to comment on the future of the government’s chief economic minister&comma; treasurer Joe Hockey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In challenging Mr Abbott’s leadership&comma; Mr Turnbull indirectly attacked Mr Hockey with the criticism that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the government is not successful in providing the economic leadership that we need”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government’s popularity plunged in opinion polls and never recovered after Mr Hockey revealed his first annual budget in May last year&period; That budget was widely criticised as unfair toward the poor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Turnbull said he had spoken to Mr Abbott since ousting him&comma; but did not know whether the former prime minister intended to stay in parliament&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed120590c15">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed120590c15'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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