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Anthony Albanese Made No Reference To God Or The Queen When He Was Sworn In As Prime Minister

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Updated 11:32 22 Sep 2022 GMT+1Published 23:12 24 May 2022 GMT+1

Anthony Albanese Made No Reference To God Or The Queen When He Was Sworn In As Prime Minister

Australia's 31st leader has been praised for promising his leadership will be secular.

Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang

Anthony Albanese has wasted absolutely no time in casting aside conventions after being sworn in as Australia's 31st Prime Minister.

In the first seconds of him becoming Australia's new leader, Albanese shrugged off the religious language usually seen during the swearing in. Instead, the new PM took an affirmation.

"I, Anthony Norman Albanese do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve the Commonwealth of Australia, her land and her people in the office of Prime Minister," he said at the swearing in.

Australia's new Prime Minister also didn't mention the Queen which cast a stark contrast to his hyper-religious predecessor Scott Morrison.

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Previous Prime Ministers have traditionally said: "So Help Me God! I [full name], do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her heirs and successors according to law."

Albanese's decision to dump the religious oath makes him the second Prime Minister in history to do so. Australia's first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard was the first in 2010.

Albanese's move has been praised on social media for taking a secular stand.

One social media user said: "Yep, it's fantastic. Looking forward to a secular government, one free from religion - governing on principles of human rights, science and reason."

A second chimed in with: "Love this. Beats pretending by swearing on a holy book that doesn't guide your behaviour or beliefs any other day."

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A third added: "Now all he needs to do is ditch the Lord's Prayer in Parliament."

Albanese's decision to dump religious wording at his swearing-in wasn't the only major change of the day.

Moments later Albanese gave his first speech as Prime Minister, with eagle-eyed viewers noticing one very key difference behind him.

Instead of having three national flags behind him, Albanese's staff removed two and replaced them with the Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag.

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Albanese didn't make a song and dance out of it. In fact, the change went by completely unmentioned by the new Prime Minister as he launched into his first speech, flanked by the flags of Australia's First Nations people.

The move was praised online by Aussies, with former Australian of the Year Grace Tame leading the charge with 'always was, always will be'.

The statement infers that Australian land is Aboriginal land, and it was before and continues to be so.

In another shake-up, Albanese took newly-minted Foreign Minister Penny Wong with him to Tokyo for the Quad Summit meeting of international leaders in Japan.

Traditionally, the Prime Minister would attend on his own.

Featured Image Credit: Anthony Albanese/Facebook

Topics: News, Australia, Politics

Rachel Lang
Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang is a Digital Journalist at LADbible. During her career, she has interviewed Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull in the lead up to the 2016 federal election, ran an editorial campaign on the war in Yemen, and reported on homelessness in the lead-up to Harry and Meghan’s wedding in Windsor. She also once wrote a yarn on the cheese and wine version of Fyre Festival.

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