Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced her new cabinet line-up on Monday after an aborted coup within her party last Thursday that led to the departure of three Cabinet ministers and one outer minister.

Her moves demonstrated the urgent need of the government to clear the mounting doubt on its incompetence and instability as shown in the "appalling" past two weeks.

Gillard was forced to reshuffle her Cabinet, the second in less than two months and the sixth in three years, to fill in the vacancies left by resigned heavyweight ministers including the long-serving Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism Martin Ferguson.

Gary Gray, taking Ferguson's portfolio, was one of the two backbenchers who were promoted to full Cabinet ranks in the latest reshuffle.

The appointment of Gray, who had worked as an executive of oil and gas giant Woodside, was hailed by the energy and resources industries.

Australian newspapers said in its report on Tuesday that Gray' s promotion can been seen as the government's bid to "assure voters of its stable handling of the commodities boom."

But some argued that by taking also the portfolio of small business, vacated by another resigning minister Chris Bowen, Gray will be challenged in dealing with both big energy and resources companies and the country's struggling small businesses.

Another arrangement that have raised people's eyebrow was the creation of two super ministers and one super department.

Department of Climate Change was merged with the Department of Industry, Innovation, Tertiary Education, Science and Research, making it practically a super department.

Gillard also loaded two of her most senior ministers, Craig Emerson and Anthony Albanese, with heavy new responsibilities in addition to their current roles, making them "super ministers."

Emerson has been appointed Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, the role relinquished by Bowen while continuing as Minister for Trade and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy.

Emerson is regarded as one of the most trusted supporters of Gillard. His added portfolio is seen by many as a reward for his loyalty.

Beside, Gillard hopes that Emerson, also a respected academic, would help bring confidence in the government's efforts in maintaining economic growth and creating more jobs.

Albanese's case is completely different from Emerson's. Though a key Rudd supporter who would have become Rudd's deputy if the challenge was successful, Albanese has taken on Simon Crean 's former portfolio of regional development and local government while keeping his post as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport.

Analysts said Albanese, also the Labor Party's leader in the lower house of the parliament, is too important to lose.

The Daily Telegraph commented that these multi-functional portfolios actually reflected the fact that the prime minister is faced with a recruitment problem.

The newspaper recalled that in June 2010 Albanese's job in the first Gillard ministry was infrastructure, transport, regional development and local government. It was too much and in September 2010 the responsibilities for regional affairs and local government were trimmed off.

A similar case happened with the portfolio of trade and education like Emerson has this time.

"Some of the multi-function portfolios she (Gillard) was forced to hand out today have been tried before and found too cumbersome to work effectively," the newspaper said.

While Gillard has cleared the cloud hanging over Labor Party leadership since Rudd's failed challenge in February 2012, it is time for her and her party to move forward to the federal election scheduled for September 14.

Latest opinion polls showed that Labor has lost six percentage points to 30 percent in primary vote, while Gillard's personal standing crashed to a 19-month low of 26 percent.

The prime minister and her new Cabinet will undoubtedly have an uphill journey to make in the upcoming polls.