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LNP leader’s cabinet includes several changes, including former leader Tim Nicholls as health minister and Fiona Simpson in women’s portfolio
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Queensland’s new premier, David Crisafulli, has unveiled his new cabinet, breaking a pre-election promise to automatically elevate his existing shadow team to the government frontbench.
The LNP leader repeatedly promised the shadow cabinet he took to last week’s election would be the cabinet after it.
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David Crisafulli: premier and minister for veterans
Jarrod Bleijie: deputy premier, minister for state development, infrastructure and planning, and minister for industrial relations
David Janetzki: treasurer, minister for energy and minister for home ownership
Ros Bates: minister for finance, trade, employment and training
Dale Last: minister for natural resources and mines, minister for manufacturing and minister for regional and rural development
Tim Nicholls: minister for health and ambulance services
Deb Frecklington: attorney general and minister for justice and minister for integrity
John-Paul Langbroek: minister for education and the arts
Dan Purdie: minister for police and emergency services
Laura Gerber: minister for youth justice and victim support and minister for corrective services
Brent Mickelberg: minister for transport and main roads
Ann Leahy: minister for local government and water and minister for fire, disaster recovery and volunteers
Sam O’Connor: minister for housing and public works and minister for youth
Tony Perrett: minister for primary industries
Fiona Simpson: minister for women and women’s economic security, minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and minister for multiculturalism
Andrew Powell: minister for the environment and tourism and minister for science and innovation
Amanda Camm: minister for families, seniors and disability services and minister for child safety and the prevention of domestic and family violence
Tim Mander: minister for sport and racing and minister for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Steve Minnikin: minister for customer services and open data and minister for small and family business
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