{"id":30988,"date":"2015-09-20T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=30988"},"modified":"2015-09-20T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T07:28:16","slug":"kelly-odwyer-appointed-assistant-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2015\/09\/20\/kelly-odwyer-appointed-assistant-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly O&#8217;Dwyer Appointed Assistant Treasurer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian MP, <strong>Kelly O&#8217;Dwyer<\/strong>, will replace <strong>Josh Frydenberg<\/strong> as Assistant Treasurer in the new Turnbull Cabinet, announced today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30992\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/Kelly-ODwyer1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30992\" alt=\"Assistant Treasurer-designate, Kelly O'Dwyer\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/Kelly-ODwyer1.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Treasurer and Small Business Minister-designate, Kelly O&#8217;Dwyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms O&#8217;Dwyer, who currently serves as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, will also succeed <strong>Bruce Billson<\/strong> as the country&#8217;s Small Business Minister.<\/p>\n<p>In other Treasury-related appointments, <strong>Scott Morrison<\/strong> replaces <strong>Joe Hockey<\/strong> as Treasurer, while Senator <strong>Mathias Cormann<\/strong> has retained his Finance Ministry portfolio<strong><\/strong>. Assistant Minister to the Treasurer will be NSW MP, <strong>Alex Hawke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Assistant Treasurer Frydenberg has been promoted into the Prime Minister&#8217;s Cabinet as the Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, while Senator <strong>Arthur Sinodinos<\/strong>, who held responsibility for the financial services sector until the end of 2014, has emerged as the Prime Minister&#8217;s Cabinet Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Riskinfo will report further updates as the week unfolds, having recently received confirmation in an interview with outgoing Assistant Treasurer Frydenberg that the Government was set to announce its formal response to both the Financial System Inquiry and Life Insurance Framework proposals later this month (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2015\/09\/08\/government-reaffirms-commitment-to-existing-level-commission-structure\/\">Government Reaffirms Commitment to Existing Level Commission Structure<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian MP, Kelly O&#8217;Dwyer, will replace Josh Frydenberg as Assistant Treasurer in the new Turnbull Cabinet, announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}