There were more than a few big changes as the throngs of family members, staffers and senior public servants shuffled into the ACT Legislative Assembly for the first time since the election.
Members sat on Wednesday morning for a ceremonial first sitting to be officially sworn in.
There were six new members. Two from Labor, two from the Liberals and two new independents, who are the first to sit in the chamber in more than two decades.
Greens leader Shane Rattenbury, who'd sat as a minister for the past 12 years, was suddenly on the crossbench with his three colleagues who are already very familiar with these positions.
Leanne Castley was sitting in the leadership chair on the opposition benches and was joined by Jeremy Hanson, returning as deputy leader nearly a year after he was exiled to the backbench.
And there was Elizabeth Lee. The former opposition leader's new hairstyle distracted from the fact she was now sitting on the opposition's backbench.
There are only six new members in the Assembly, which is down on recent elections but this Assembly is going to be a vastly different one.
Not the least because the Liberals resident rabble-rouser Mark Parton will no longer be providing animated speeches to the Assembly, instead he will be sitting in the speaker's chair. He was elected unopposed to the chair in the first vote of the new Assembly.
Mr Parton remarked it would be a "fascinating four years given the dynamics that have been revealed in the last 24 hours".
And he was right.
With Mr Rattenbury freed from the shackles of cabinet, he was already going on the attack against Labor.
"It's become clear that a Labor-led government is not willing to try as hard as much as we are and that's not a government we want to be a part of," he told the Assembly.
There was the vote for the chief minister. There were two nominations: Andrew Barr and Ms Castley. Mr Barr overwhelmingly won the vote 16-9, securing the support of the Greens and the two independents.
Mr Barr has made supply agreements with the ACT Greens and independent MLA Thomas Emerson but with only 10 Labor members, four short of a majority, the government will have to work much harder to secure support for its policy agenda.
And the expanded crossbench, which is very noticeable, is going to make that very clear.
