She is the first Asian-born person to hold an Australian cabinet position. With Wong, Australia gets its first foreign minister to be born overseas. Other members of his team to take office included Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who will join Albanese at the Quad summit, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. There’s a government change in Australia and after being in Opposition for nine years, the Labor Party has returned to power.Įarly Monday morning, before the Quad summit in Tokyo, Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took office in a brief ceremony at Government House, Canberra.
