Julia Gillard's new look cabinet will keep an appointment with the West Australian public next week.
It's where Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her new-look cabinet are due to meet the people of Western Australia face-to-face.
After an extraordinary week in Canberra, which saw a potential challenge stared down by Ms Gillard, one minister sacked and three ministers resigning, the PM will fly west for the first time since her party's crushing state election defeat.
Ms Gillard's office has confirmed that despite the huge events in Canberra, the scheduled Community cabinet meeting in the southeast of Perth on Wednesday is still to go ahead.
With federal ministers Kim Carr, Martin Ferguson and Chris Bowen all resigning, and Simon Crean sacked, after former PM Kevin Rudd refused to stand against Ms Gillard at Thursday's caucus meeting, the composition of the cabinet line-up that will travel to Perth is set to be vastly changed.
It's not yet known when Ms Gillard will re-shuffle the cabinet and make new appointments.
WA Labor and the PM were both criticised for keeping their distance during the recent state election campaign, with Ms Gillard acceding to a reported request from state leader Mark McGowan not to make an appearance before the March 9 poll.
That ended with a crushing defeat by the WA Liberals, and the loss of seven seats.
Mr McGowan will still not meet with the PM when she is in Perth, as he remains on annual leave after the election defeat - although it is believed his stand-in Roger Cook will have some interaction.
Premier Colin Barnett's office said there had been no approach from the prime minister's office to meet Mr Barnett, who has been a strident critic of Ms Gillard in recent times.
'However, if there was an approach he would be happy to meet,' a spokeswoman said.
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