Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced Jan Tinetti, Ayesha Verrall, Willie Jackson and Kiri Allan are being shifted up the Labour rankings, with Nanaia Mahuta and Andrew Little dropping down.
Tinetti is taking on the Education portfolio that had been Hipkins' and moves up from number 14 to six; Verrall becomes Health Minister and moves from 18 to 8; Jackson moves from number 13 to nine, and Allan shoots from number 16 to 10, taking on the Regional Development portfolio.
Mahuta drops from eighth to 16th, retaining Foreign Affairs but losing Local Government to Kieran McAnulty, who also rises from being an unranked minister outside Cabinet to 18th on the list.
Little drops from sixth to 13th on the list, losing Health but gaining Defence and Public Service.
Hipkins will have been buoyed by two polls out last night which had Labour overtaking National, and his personal popularity as prime minister shooting from nothing in the previous poll to overtake opposition leader Christopher Luxon's.