The Liberal/National coalition Party leader Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in as Australia's 29th prime minister for a second term by the Governor General Peter Cosgrove in Government house in Canberra.

He sworn in along with a jumbo Cabinet that include 23 minister after a narrow election victory that left him with the slimmest of majorities in the Parliament. Turnbull described the cabinet as the team to "deliver a strong and secure future".

Turnbull had said on Monday ahead of his swearing in ceremony, that, "We are committed to three years of strong, stable economic leadership so we can provide both the economic security and the national security that Australians expect and deserve."

"We will be judged in 2019 by the Australian people as to whether we have delivered on the plans and the programs and the investments that we have promised and set out and described in the lead-up to the election."

"My team will now get on with the job of governing constructively working and engaging with the other parties in the Parliament, to deliver a strong and secure future the strong economic leadership that Australians expect and will get from my Government," he said.

"We've all fought a long campaign. A very tough campaign in winter eight weeks. There has been a lot written about all of us but this election was not about us. It's about 24 million Australians their future. It is the service we deliver as their Government, delivering on our commitments, on our programmes, on the investments that we have promised this is a term of delivery," he said.

"This is three years of strong, stable economic leadership delivering on the promises we made on our massive Defence Investment plan, on our big infrastructure commitments, on our economic reforms that is our commitment to deliver the economic security, the national security that Australians deserve and need and have elected us to do," the prime minister further added.

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