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‘We were lost’: Jewish MP recalls attack on electorate office

Federal Labor MP Josh Burns has detailed the antisemitic abuse directed at him and his partner, including the violent...

Jewish teenagers targeted in St Kilda East ute attack

Just three days before the National Day of Mourning for the victims of last month’s antisemitic terrorist attack at...

Political wannabe ‘not Nazi saluting, just waving’

A failed political candidate has denied performing a Nazi salute at an AFL game, instead saying he was just...

A credit to the community

Shadow Attorney General Julian Leeser and Labor MP Josh Burns have jointly won the coveted McKinnon Prize for 2024, ...

Focus turns to lasting peace as ceasefire deal hailed

A ceasefire in the Middle East is a welcome breakthrough, Australia's prime minister says, but the next steps to...

Josh Burns joins others in in Labor over Greens preference deals

With less than two weeks until the federal election, Labor MP Josh Burns has taken a stance that sets...

Universities ‘toxic’ for Jewish students, inquiry finds

Universities have become toxic for Jewish students and staff, a parliamentary inquiry has found, releasing its findings early ahead...

‘Time for action’ as cops hunt synagogue fire suspects

Police enforcement and prosecutions against anti-Semitic acts need to improve, Australia's special envoy says as she calls for concrete...

Jewish community defiant as October 7 remembered

Australia's Jewish community say they remain defiant and united as thousands gathered 12 months on from the October 7...

Two teens charged with vandalising Josh Burns’ office

Police have charged two people after the offices of a federal Labor MP were daubed with red graffiti and...

Josh Burns’ office smashed and set on fire

Vandals have smashed windows and set fire to the front of federal Labor MP Josh Burns' Melbourne electoral office...

“A sad and shameful day for all Australians” 

Australia's support of a UN resolution on Palestine will help to broker peace, the foreign minister says, but a...

Reporting on a visit to Israel

Four recent visitors to Israel on AIJAC’s Rambam Israel Fellowship program, three Federal MPs and one from the media,...

Jews and Muslims should feel safe: Jewish MPs

Australian Jews and Muslims should not be used as "political footballs" and their communities should feel safe and supported,...

L’Chaim – to Life: podcast with Josh Burns

Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns MP, Federal Labor Member of parliament for Macnamarra, about the recent Labor Party’s...

Senator restrained by police as LGBTQI protests clash

Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been physically held back by police as she attempted to storm the lectern of...

L’Chaim – to Life: Josh Burns

Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns MP, Federal Member of Parliament for Macnamara, about his recent motion in Parliament,...

L’Chaim to Life: Josh Burns MP – Education is the way to “never forget” and “never again”

Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns, Labor’s Federal Member of Parliament for the seat of Macnamara, about the motion...

Henry’s 700th birthday celebrating with Josh Burns

Federal Member for the Melbourne seat of Macnamara Josh Burns appears via Zoom on the special 700th episode of The Shtick.

The party is over

They have different political allegiances, but politicians Josh Burns and David Southwick have joined forces to stabilise the COVID fallout created by an irresponsible small group of Melbourne's Jewish community.