Andrew Barr has started at the top. A major shake-up of the ACT's public service is in the works and Mr Barr says there will be a focus on delivering services more effectively and efficiently.
A new-look, shaved-down ministry shows a government eager to set an agenda for change, with an eye to efficiency.
The territory government's new cabinet has one fewer person and nine fewer ministries. This is not fewer people doing more work instead irrelevant and redundant ministries have been abandoned.
Mr Barr said the rejig of cabinet provides for "efficiencies and alignment of responsibilities".
But what the cabinet list really said was: The Greens are on the crossbench, we don't need to throw them a bone anymore and can do it our way.
There were three Greens in cabinet in the last Assembly and the minor party clearly pushed for portfolios in their areas of priority, including housing, climate change and health.
But Labor wasn't prepared to let the Greens have all the glory.
The Labor members of cabinet often held more senior ministries in these areas, and it resulted in a whole lot of confusion for the public service and stakeholders alike.
In the past term there where was a housing minister and a housing services minister.
The difference? One was supposed to look after the delivery of housing and the other looked after housing waiting lists and tenant welfare.
But in areas where the two converged, and this happened a lot, it simply brought confusion about who did what.
There is now only one housing minister, Yvette Berry, but the ministry has been rebranded as "homes and new suburbs".
Mr Barr was the climate change minister, Rebecca Vassarotti was the environment minister and Shane Rattenbury was the water, energy and emissions reduction minister.
That's now all been brought under the one portfolio with Suzanne Orr taking charge. It's a sensible move.
One of the most ludicrous separations in the old ministry was the health minister and the population health minister. This happened in a ministerial reshuffle in December 2023.
Mr Barr had taken disability away from Emma Davidson. The population health ministry was a consolation prize.
This meant she was in charge of public health risks, the flu vaccine campaign, vaping, alcohol and other drugs and organ and tissue donation.
There was even confusion about whether Ms Davidson was in charge of COVID at one stage. It turned out she was because it's endemic, but if there is another pandemic, that was for the health minister.
Unsurprisingly, this portfolio has been dumped and these responsibilities will go back to Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith. She is also taking on mental health.
While most portfolios have been reunited there is an outlier with separate Treasury and finance ministries but this is not about making people happy. It's because the budget needs some careful management and Mr Barr wants to show his government's capability extends beyond his own.
The slimmer ministry gives some insight into the type of structural changes Labor will make to the territory's public service.
