{"id":635684,"date":"2026-04-28T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:31:09","slug":"pm-announces-first-woman-to-take-reins-as-defence-secretary-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635684\/","title":{"rendered":"PM announces first woman to take reins as Defence secretary &#8211; The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxQNkNWMzBKUzVxSmFpWVNGSjh6NEJoVTJ0N1F0QlV6b2ppbDFzY09Ga0Z3c3BtR0VGd3lhWldLMkZZTG9kR1RSTS0ybHZ1ME42WU1XYVhQOXplOHZ5eDNZdUFTNG1na0RHUG5pc0JHZFQyWEJjT0t4cE9jMHlNVEVkcVI5Tndodk9BUTh6cEVRTE5KaFBHMXdwTFJ0M1dBdVUzVkNKeFZfSE8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PM announces first woman to take reins as Defence secretary<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Canberra Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxQeWo1VllxZWFNLTZSTWZ6c1l0X1huVFZucnRCUVVFWEdreHhDUU5OWldwYzB5Q3RycU9RVDdhb1NRSFZ3T3RsU0pIbTlhaVdQeWR4c3VoNnQxbG5iclh4SmRmZGN4dk1fV0VmYTh1WWdVNy1LZ21lTTJsa0RiTFBxMlpoV2s0T0FrSkVfWG1pUklzOHEzYUJMSDl5Z0FEaU0yM1RybHJn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Live: PM backs &#8216;standout&#8217; first woman as permanent defence secretary<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Australian Broadcasting Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxNSXhiWlpOckp2ZS0yb3g4UG01WEZCY2dlOGdxYjYtckNEa25QTjBRYVZsbEx5N2JRcHlMUWdTbDhjcmVkQkhaOWdwUXMwS2ZhSnF1Y0FQRFNpdFZJc0VBaFhhamY3X1AyTV81dWg4YVk3VU02VVppU04tWlBQNzVYRV9ZTThBbmI4ZXVBcDlnRDBZU1VkREdBZmpjSG9nUG1Vay1vbzRlTTRWQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PM names Meghan Quinn as first female Secretary of the Department of Defence<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Region Canberra<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxQUlVLdXgwZVFSRnJUWFVEZ3BDR0JvUVJFLURKdWcxbldDV1BER3RkZGJxSEFaSy00TDdOZG1HaFlYMm5abTRZREJkU21kaVZSZkVrOEp6cm9YQU5CRjVRN1VrcnZLUjFxVDdDenhHck5STTIxR0FGQXl6b0ZMMzNNLV9ZZU1HR1p5T255eXQwcjNVLUgyd3NJZFRzRUlPQlU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PM backs &#8216;stand-out&#8217; first woman as permanent defence secretary \u2014 as it happened<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Australian Broadcasting Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTFBueDVzc0l6aGgwT3F3UUQybjhmcWJ2Y0FYSTlKcTdIU09YT3dlQ3E3dW1lTWhwb0dnSVVlWWtjc1ZmY0VYalRGVFRvTzZrcEtnVVRua3hCd3FWZWdJbmZSbWdvMDNqV2V4X2ZjSXN6MDJPRTBNTFZGekxUR1oydlk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New defence secretary named to lead huge spending boost<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PM announces first woman to take reins as Defence secretary&nbsp;&nbsp;The Canberra TimesLive: PM backs &#8216;standout&#8217; first woman as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-635684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635684","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=635684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}