<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Cabinet of Australia is the Australian Government's council of senior ministers of the Crown, responsible to Parliament . Ministers are appointed by the Governor - General, on the advice of the Prime Minister, who serve at the former's pleasure . Cabinet meetings are strictly private and occur once a week where vital issues are discussed and policy formulated . The Cabinet is also composed of a number of Cabinet committees focused on governance and specific policy issues . Outside the Cabinet there is an Outer Ministry and also a number of Assistant Ministers, responsible for a specific policy area and reporting directly to a senior Cabinet minister of their portfolio . The Cabinet, the Outer Ministry, and the Assistant Ministers collectively form the full Commonwealth Ministry of the government of the day . </P> <P> As with the Prime Minister of Australia, the Constitution of Australia does not recognise the Cabinet as a legal entity; these roles actually exist solely by convention . Decisions of Cabinet do not in and of themselves have legal force . Instead, it convenes to function as a practical' foreshadowing' of the Business of the Federal Executive Council, which is, ostensibly (as per the Constitution), Australia's highest formal governmental body established by Chapter II of the Constitution of Australia . In practice, the Federal Executive Council meets solely to endorse and give legal force to decisions already made by the Cabinet . </P>

Who selects the ministers to form the cabinet