Australian Social Services Minister Ruston Tapped to Inherit Health Portfolio as Hunt Retires

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promoted Anne Ruston to the cabinet post of health if the Coalition centre-right government is successful at the May 21 election. The role of the health portfolio became vacant with Minister Greg Hunt retiring from politics. “Anne has demonstrated the stakeholder management, the financial skills, but most important having a big heart to be able to deal with the many issues that you need to deal with in the health portfolio,” Morrison told reporters outside the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney. Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume threw her support behind the decision, saying it is important to have steady hands at the wheel in this portfolio when the country was still dealing with a global pandemic. ...

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