Left-winger and former union boss Joe Szakacs also enters the ministry, after serving as a shadow minister in Opposition.
He’ll take the cabinet spot of the Right’s Emily Bourke, who will be an assistant minister, alongside fledgling MP Rhiannon Pearce, who enters parliament having snared the north-eastern suburbs marginal of King from the Liberals.
But a shock development appears on the cards – with independent Geoff Brock, who defeated Deputy Premier Dan van Holst Pellekaan in his Stuart stronghold, strongly tipped to return to the ministry, having served in the former Weatherill Government.
Brock’s support allowed then-Premier Jay Weatherill to return to power as a minority government in 2014.
