The election in Australia has changed the political situation in Canberra.

In other words, politics down under is becoming more left-leaning, more female and more climate-friendly.

Aboriginal voices are also likely to be given more weight in the future.

At least that's what the appointment of 65-year-old Linda Burney as Minister for Indigenous Australians stands for.

Burney was sworn in on Wednesday with nine other women in new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's cabinet, "the most number of women ever to serve in an Australian cabinet," as the 59-year-old PM pointed out.

Burney is the first Indigenous woman to hold the position and only the second person to hold the position who is of Indigenous descent.

She succeeds Ken Wyatt,

Till Fähnders

Political correspondent for Southeast Asia.

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Indigenous people in Australia are severely disadvantaged politically and socially.

They are hoping for better equality from the new government.

As is becoming increasingly common in Australia, the new prime minister first acknowledged indigenous people and their historical rights in his victory speech on election night.

As Minister Burney confirmed before she was sworn in, she wants to get a referendum on the way within the next twelve months, which should establish a stronger political representation of the indigenous people in the constitution.

The basis is the "Uluru Statement", which a council of 250 representatives of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders agreed on five years ago.

It calls for the formation of an indigenous body

Top management remains male

The Minister said that Australia's first referendum in more than 20 years could change Australia forever.

With the project, her party ties in with the time before 2013, before her government ended with the election victory of the conservative coalition of Liberal and National Party.

In 2008, then-Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized to the indigenous people for the injustices suffered by white settlers.

Under his successor, Julia Gillard, the House of Commons officially declared Aborigines to be the first inhabitants of Australia.

However, attempts to change a constitution failed due to considerable resistance.

The new opposition leader and Liberal leader Peter Dutton has now described it as a "mistake" not to have apologized at the time.

Albanese's Labor is not only the first social-democratic government in nine years, but also one that is starting from a better position.

It has been clear since Tuesday that it has its own majority of at least 76 of the 151 seats.

Another seat has since been added.

Albanese is thus not dependent on the support of the Greens and independents, who are also more strongly represented in parliament with four and ten seats than ever before.

The political forces beyond the two-party system have benefited from the fact that some citizens want a change in climate policy in particular.

The former governing coalition of the Liberal and National Party together only has 58 seats.

You are now faced with a cabinet of great social diversity.

In addition to the Prime Minister with the Italian surname, the new Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who has an Australian and Malaysian-Chinese background, also stands for this.

The Home Office is also occupied by a woman, Clare O'Neil.

With Secretary of Defense Richard Marles as Deputy Prime Minister, the top leadership remains male.