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Labor MPs will meet on Tuesday, as Premier Jacinta Allan is expected to announce the retirement of several ministers and a cabinet reshuffle ahead of the November state election.<\/p>\n
MPs were on Thursday being told to be ready for a meeting on Tuesday, with the expectation that there would be a vote on cabinet vacancies.<\/p>\n
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Jacinta Allan has told MPs to prepare for a cabinet reshuffle next week.Wayne Taylor<\/p>\n
Natalie Hutchins<\/a> has already announced her retirement and left cabinet in December. But her portfolios were redistributed among existing ministers, and her cabinet position is yet to be filled.<\/p>\n Other names floated for retirement are Danny Pearson<\/a>, Gayle Tierney and Mary-Anne Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Article Pearson and Tierney have previously denied their intention to resign when asked. However, this has not dimmed speculation that they will not contest the upcoming election.<\/p>\n Further resignations have been expected since December, when Hutchins announced her retirement, because of Allan\u2019s decision not to immediately elevate another MP into the ministry.<\/p>\n At the time, Labor MPs said Allan was waiting for further resignations to trigger a larger reshuffle.<\/p>\n Backbench MPs have spent the last week ringing around to shore up support for a promotion.<\/p>\n Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/29e913be62d9c672798fe1b1f300ee145e9805c9.jpeg\")
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Rachel Eddie<\/a> is a Victorian state political reporter for The Age. Contact her at rachel.eddie@theage.com.au, rachel.eddie@protonmail.com, or via Signal at @RachelEddie.99Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 9, 2026 \u2014 10:43am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-594726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}