OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be working with an "L-plate cabinet" in the lead-up to the federal budget in 50 days' time.
Ms Gillard will announce a ministry reshuffle in Canberra at noon (AEDT) on Monday, following the resignations of ministers Martin Ferguson, Chris Bowen and Kim Carr and the sacking of Simon Crean following last week's botched leadership challenge.
Mr Abbott said the new ministry would be inexperienced at a time when Labor was under pressure to deliver a "responsible, honest budget" for 2013/14.
"This is quite a challenge for the government, given that the budget will be prepared with some of Labor's most respected and most competent members on the backbench rather than on the frontbench," he told reporters in Sydney on Monday.
"It is going to be very much an L-plate cabinet.
"There will be people in the cabinet who will be confronted with budget-making for the first time in their careers."
Mr Abbott said the new ministry would include the sixth small business minister in less than three years, after Mr Bowen stood down on Friday.
Mr Abbott said his team had "stability and continuity" and would examine the government's May 14 budget for honesty and responsibility.
The coalition's assessment of the budget would direct the timing of any no confidence motion in the government.
"There will be a no confidence motion put on the notice paper in budget week because it is time for the Australian people to have their say," Mr Abbott said.
"We've had the faceless men, we've had the backroom deals - now the Australian public deserve their say.
"The longer this government lasts the more damage it is doing to our country and to our economy."
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