The Cabinet of Queensland is the chief policy-making group of people within the

Government of Queensland The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended f ...

in Australia.

Composition

The Cabinet has the same membership as the Executive Council: the

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of gov ...

and ministers (including the Deputy Premier and

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). Assistant ministers, formerly called parliamentary secretaries, are not members.

Current members

On 12 November 2020, Premier Palaszczuk announced a new line up for the ministry.

Role

Unlike the Executive Council, which is a mechanism for advising the

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, the Cabinet meets without the Governor and is responsible for formulating and coordinating policy. In effect, the Executive Council is a vehicle for implementing decisions made in Cabinet. Individual ministers are collectively responsible for the decisions made by Cabinet, so ministers are expected to resign if unwilling to publicly support a collective decision of Cabinet.

Meetings

Meetings of the Cabinet are usually held on 10:00 a.m. on Mondays in the Executive Building's Cabinet Room. The Premier (or Deputy Premier in her or his absence) chairs its meetings and establishes its agenda. All members are expected to be present at all meetings unless excused by the Premier.

Notes

References

External links

''Cabinet Handbook''
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