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Two veteran Labor frontbenchers have stepped down from state cabinet to make way for three new ministers, including one who’s only just been elected. As Labor shaped its new leadership teams, it has won another sear in Light. While the Liberals have lost the seat of Finnis to an independent adding to the party’s crushing election defeat. Liberal leader Ashton Hurn says nothing will be off the table in a newly announced review over the bruising result.

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00:02Fresh recruits, returning veterans and even some yet-to-be-elected MPs
00:09gathering to elevate Labor's new Cabinet.
00:12We see a big opportunity before us at the moment and I think the electorate has said just get on
00:18with it.
00:18Veteran frontbencher and former tourism minister Zoe Bettison and ex-human services minister Nat Cook
00:25have stepped down from Cabinet, making way for first-term MP Alice Rolls
00:30as well as returning members Michael Brown and Nadia Clancy.
00:34Their portfolios are yet to be announced.
00:37For a bruised Liberal Party, it's time for reflection.
00:40With just a handful of MPs to now lead, Ashton Hearn says she'll take on board the message from voters.
00:47Everything will be reviewed as part of the election review of course, nothing will be off the cards.
00:53Including her party's decision to preference One Nation, a move that wasn't reciprocated.
00:59The reality is that One Nation had a massive surge. We can't ignore that.
01:03Labor's majority in the lower house has now increased to 33 seats.
01:08The party retaining the Northern Adelaide electorate of light.
01:11While independent Lou Nicholson has gained the formerly Liberal-held seat of Finnes on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
01:17But there are still six seats in doubt. The Liberals have edged ever so slightly ahead in the Southern Metro
01:23seat of Moorford.
01:25And the party's Deputy Leader Josh Teague is only just hanging on to his Adelaide Hills electorate of Hyson.
01:31One Nation's either ahead or likely to win the regional seats of Hammond, MacKillop and Narunga,
01:37having already claimed nudgery in the state's Mid-North.
01:41Voters in that electorate welcoming the election of David Payton.
01:45I'm hoping he's going to provide some leadership under the auspices of Pauline Hanson.
01:50I've been a Pauline Hanson supporter for years and years. She's tough and that's what we need.
01:55It was more of a protest vote than I voted One Nation.
01:58The vote count will continue on Wednesday as Labor's new Cabinet gets sworn in at Government House.
02:04It's díficil to be known as Labor's new Budget, and I believe it's hard to work on the in-person
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