Tony Abbott has immediately ordered the scrapping of Australia's carbon tax and the halting of asylum-seeker boats after being sworn in as Prime Minister
"As soon as I return to Parliament House from the swearing-in ceremony, I will instruct the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to prepare the carbon tax repeal legislation," said Abbott, who once famously said that evidence blaming mankind for climate change was "absolute crap"
Chris Bowen, the Acting Leader of the Labor Party, which had 6 women in cabinet before it lost the election, said Australian had gone backwards.
"The cabinet of Afghanistan now has more women in it," Bowen said, in reference to the three Afghan women with cabinet portfolios.
Abbott said there were some "very good and talented women knocking on the door of the cabinet".
"I am disappointed there are not more women in cabinet," Abbott said.
Tony Abbott nominated Bronwyn Bishop, another Liberal Party politician, to became speaker of parliament
Other key Ministers sworn in included -
West Australian Senator Mathias Cormann as finance minister
Joe Hockey as treasurer
Andrew Robb as trade minister
George Brandis as attorney-general and
Nationals leader Warren Truss as Deputy Prime Minister
Tony Abbott(55)
- Leader of Liberal Party and Liberal-National coalition
- Born 1957 in UK to Australian parents
- Former student boxer and Catholic priest trainee
- Economics and law graduate and Rhodes scholar
- Held employment, and health and ageing portfolios under Howard government
- In 2009, he got 42 votes & beat then leader Malcolm Turnbull who got 41 votes in a party leadership vote
- Took over flagging Liberal-National coalition in December 2009
- Pledges to repeal mining and carbon taxes, and give mothers up to 26 weeks leave, on full pay
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