New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces his new cabinet, at a press conference in Canberra, on September 20, 2015. - AFP / Peter Parks
Canberra (AFP) - New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defended his major cabinet shake-up and said if the percentage of women in parliament had been higher he could have appointed more to key roles.
One week after deposing Tony Abbott in a swift, internal Liberal Party coup, Turnbull on Monday pleaded the case for renewal in his first television interview as leader after clearing out a raft of senior conservatives and appointing many of his own moderate supporters.
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