Ms Berejikilian announced her new-look line-up in Queanbeyan on Sunday, and she and deputy premier John Barilaro showed no fear is wielding the axe.

Senior MP Duncan Gay lost the roads portfolio, while John Ajaka and Leslie Williams have been dropped from multiculturalism and early education respectively.

Adrian Piccoli has also lost education to former planning minister Rob Stokes, despite being widely respected in the role.

It leaves NSW with a fresh start, but is that necessarily a good thing?

You see, a fresh start may solve some problems for the new premier and her deputy but it can also lead to some unrest over promises made by predecessors.

In Saturday the Daily Liberal ran a story outlining how our local MP Troy Grant, who was replaced as Nationals leader by Mr Barilaro, will seek a meeting to shore up a commitment to help fund a cancer centre for the city.

That came in the wake of former health minister Jillian Skinner’s resignation, which was the grandest example of “jumping before being pushed” seen in a long time.

While opponents of council amalgamations get excited about the potential for the Baird government policy to be reversed, proponents for the cancer centre sit nervously and hope the new leaders of both the Liberals and the Nationals see fit to do with that money what their former leaders wanted to do with it.

Speaking with the Daily Liberal after the new cabinet announcement on Sunday, Mr Grant said he was “confident” the money would still be there for the project, but he wanted an assurance from the new health minister, premier and deputy premier to put his mind at ease.

It’s a fair call too, but it shouldn’t be up to him to go running to these people to seek the assurance.

How about Ms Berejiklian, Mr Barilaro and new health minister Brad Hazzard get on the front foot and tell us themselves that the money is still there for the project?

Sure, creating a portfolio for counter-terrorism is important in its own way, but a cancer centre for the hub of central and western NSW is a life-and-death matter every day for countless people in remote areas of the state. Show us that you care.