# Albanese is sworn as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 23 May 2022 Governor-General David Hurley swore [Anthony Albanese](/people/anthony-albanese) as Prime Minister, with an interim five-person ministry, before Albanese flew to Tokyo for a Quad meeting with Biden, Kishida, and Modi. Later statutes are other rows.

## Context

21 May election sat as parent. Neighbouring Climate Act is a child. He did not sit as the Governor-General.

21 May 2022 election is the parent. Quad Tokyo is a child diplomacy file.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed peaceful oath two days after a certified election.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 23 May 2022 swearing-in, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later Quad coefficient from that Monday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He took the oath. An interim ministry shared the hour.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Albanese is sworn as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia, not a later speech about Albanese is sworn as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Albanese is sworn as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia on 2022-05-23 is not a licence to treat every later Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Albanese is sworn as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Governor-General swore him. He took the oath. An interim ministry shared the hour. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://apnews.com/article/biden-scott-morrison-tokyo-australia-df265e86e39213693f7972865258916f
- https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-44187

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-sworn-2022