Cabinet members sworn in following Labor re-election

Western Australia’s Premier Roger Cook, and his cabinet have been sworn in by the state's governor.

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00:00About a week later than expected, thanks to some slow counts and tight contests, but Roger

00:06Cook's new cabinet has been officially sworn in here at Government House.

00:11All 17 of his ministers carrying new responsibilities into this term of parliament.

00:17The biggest changes though have come in health, where instead of having one minister responsible

00:21for the whole system, there will now be four.

00:24The lead health minister, that's a first time minister, Meredith Hammett, will be assisted

00:29by a minister for health infrastructure, a minister for preventative health, and working

00:34closely with a minister for aged care, with the hope that by moving people out of hospitals

00:40and into aged care, they can free up some extra capacity in the system.

00:45That's just one of the many big and complex tasks ahead for this government, something

00:50Premier Roger Cook was keen to remind them of this morning, challenging them ahead of

00:55this next term of government.

00:57Today I am proud to present my WA Labor team, a team that will never take the trust of the

01:05WA community for granted, that will work hard every day to repay that trust.

01:12Congratulations to everyone that was sworn in today, and now let's get back to work.

01:21That work will begin very shortly after some celebrations here at Government House with

01:25friends and family, with so many ministers taking on new responsibilities, there will

01:29be lots of briefings, lots of conversations to get up to speed before the real work begins

01:35in the days ahead.