Garrett joins Rudd on tour.


Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd begins the long haul to the next election today by campaigning on climate change with his freshly promoted frontbencher Peter Garrett.
Mr Rudd has dramatically shaken up his shadow ministry and he will begin selling the new team today.
On the agenda - visiting coastal areas near Bundaberg, where he says sea levels are rising.
With Mr Garrett, his new environment and climate change spokesman, Mr Rudd will argue that property owners need more government action.
Meanwhile his deputy Julia Gillard and new health spokeswoman Nicola Roxon will be in northern New South Wales, attacking the Government over access to dentists.
Over the next week Mr Rudd and Ms Gillard will criss-cross the country as part of a series of events to promote themselves and their new frontbench line-up.
Mr Rudd has created some completely new portfolios, turning his rhetoric on federalism into practice by creating a Commonwealth-state relations position, to be filled by Bob McMullan.
Climate change
Mr Garrett says he wants to put the Government on notice that it is fiddling while Australia burns.
"No more talk, no more task forces, get on with it Prime Minister - if you're serious about the environment, get on with it, if you're serious about climate change," he said.
"Because Labor is serious about climate change, Labor is serious about making sure that this most significant environmental issue that we face is dealt with resolutely and it's a matter of urgency."
Treasury
Wayne Swan was one of previous Opposition leader Kim Beazley's key supporters, but he will continue in his role as Labor's treasury spokesman.
He says he is pleased to retain his position and Labor now has a very strong frontbench team.
"The decision is that of the leader - I'm delighted with his decision, I look forward to working with him to put forward a strong credible alternative economic policy for this country," he said.
Craig Emerson rejoins Labor's frontbench team, with responsibility for the new portfolio of services, small business and independent contractors.
He says he will work with Mr Swan to deliver alternative economic policy, but his brief will also overlap with industrial relations.
"When the Government talks about choice it denies choice, it denies choice to working Australians to bargain collectively if the employer says 'I'm not going to allow you to do that'," he said.
"Labor stands for choice, a genuine choice on the part of working Australians and Labor will govern for all Australians."
Chris Bowen, 33, from New South Wales, is a new face on Labor's frontbench.
He is looking forward to his role as the Opposition's assistant treasury spokesman.
"I think Kevin's put together a team with a good mixture of energy and experience," he said.
"There are a lot of people in the team who've been around a long time and others with fresh ideas and I think that's the key to how the team will work together."
Foreign Affairs
Robert McClelland lost the defence portfolio to Joel Fitzgibbon, but he is now Labor's new foreign affairs spokesman.
It is a portfolio Mr McClelland takes over from Mr Rudd.
"It's a big challenge, very significant issues and obviously very big shoes to fill in the sense that Kevin Rudd was so effective in the role," he said.
In other developments:
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says his concern when putting together his new frontbench was not bridge-building, but putting together the best team. (Full Story)
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has announced the allocation of portfolios on his new frontbench. (Full Story)