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Australia's Cabinet Sworn in After Narrow Election Victory
Source: Associated Press
Australia's Cabinet Sworn in After Narrow Election Victory
By ROD MCGUIRK, ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Jul 18, 2016, 8:23 PM ET
Australia's new cabinet was sworn in Tuesday, but the conservative government will have the slimmest of majorities when Parliament opens next month.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's cabinet will have only minor changes after two ministers in the last cabinet lost their seats in July 2 elections.
The government has a majority of just one seat in the 150-seat House of Representatives, where parties with a majority form the government.
Turnbull's hopes of a two-seat majority faded Monday when the candidate for his conservative Liberal Party ended eight votes behind the center-left Labor Party candidate after 88,360 votes were counted, although any result closer than 100 votes automatically triggers a recount. The counting took time because mail-in votes had to be counted.
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By ROD MCGUIRK, ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Jul 18, 2016, 8:23 PM ET
Australia's new cabinet was sworn in Tuesday, but the conservative government will have the slimmest of majorities when Parliament opens next month.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's cabinet will have only minor changes after two ministers in the last cabinet lost their seats in July 2 elections.
The government has a majority of just one seat in the 150-seat House of Representatives, where parties with a majority form the government.
Turnbull's hopes of a two-seat majority faded Monday when the candidate for his conservative Liberal Party ended eight votes behind the center-left Labor Party candidate after 88,360 votes were counted, although any result closer than 100 votes automatically triggers a recount. The counting took time because mail-in votes had to be counted.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/australias-prime-minister-makes-cabinet-40658495
