Three women have been sworn in as ministers to take over the portfolios of retiring former Labor leader Bill Shorten as federal cabinet reaches gender parity.
Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth has taken on the NDIS in her portfolio and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher his other position of government services minister.
Early Childhood Education Minister Anne Aly has become the junior minister for the NDIS.
Governor-General Sam Mostyn swore in all three at a ceremony at Government House in Canberra on Monday.
The promotion of Sports and Aged Care Minister Anika Wells to cabinet to replace Mr Shorten means that of the 22 ministers, 11 are men and 11 are women, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese noted at the ceremony.
"(It's) the first time in Australian history, since federation, that we've had equal representation in the cabinet of the government of Australia," he said.
While Mr Shorten's inner-Melbourne electorate of Maribyrnong will not have an elected representative in Canberra for the time being, a by-election is not expected to be held for the safe Labor seat given an election is on the horizon.
Polls have the opposition gaining ground with the expectation of Labor being pushed into minority.
Mr Albanese said Labor needed a second term to build on the foundations laid in the first as inflation moderates, cost of living pressures are addressed and the nation transitions to renewable energy as a net-zero economy.
"We'll have more to say about how we'll strengthen Medicare, about how we'll continue to create that Future Made in Australia that's at the centre of our economic policy agenda," he said.
The plan refers to the government's focus on scaling up domestic industries rather than export resources like critical minerals to be processed overseas and then bought back.
Despite the election date not being locked in, both the prime minister and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have wasted little time in hitting key marginal seats.
Mr Dutton on Monday called for a mandatory minimum six years prison for all acts of terrorism under Commonwealth laws to combat rising anti-Semitism after a spate of arson attacks and anti-Semitic graffiti in Sydney and Melbourne.
The opposition will push to make it a hate crime to urge or threaten violence towards a place of worship, punishable by five years behind bars or seven if it's an aggravated offence.
It will also introduce a mandatory minimum one year prison sentence for the public display of Nazi and prohibited terrorist organisation symbols - which are already illegal - and increase the maximum jail time to five years.
Mr Dutton has sought to paint Mr Albanese as a weak leader by attacking him for a lack of action to curb rising anti-Semitism.
He also used Labor's failure to introduce gambling reform laws, following a landmark report from late-Labor MP Peta Murphy recommending betting ads be banned, to criticise Mr Albanese for being incapable of making decisions.
"The prime minister, after the death of one of his members of parliament who was very passionate about this issue, committed himself to the reform and change of the law in this area," he told reporters in Sydney.
"We're at an election and obviously the prime minister is not going to introduce this legislation so it's just another demonstration of the weakness of leadership."
