Treasurer Josh Frydenberg visited Melbourne's ARK Centre to launch Michael Cohen's book 'From Chains to Honours - the First 200 years of an Australian Jewish Family'.
NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair, Walt Secord has applauded the High Court decision to dismiss the Josh Frydenberg dual citizenship matter.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is facing a rehash of the claim that he is a Hungarian citizen, according to a report on 10 News First...and the Prime Minister has spoken out against antisemitism.
Wearing a yarmulke and holding a Chumash given to him by the late Sir Zelman Cowen, Josh Frydenberg was sworn in this morning as Australia's Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia.
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has accepted an apology made by Brisbane financial adviser James Howarth following a series of tweets criticising the politician for his position in planned changes to upfront commissions paid to financial planners.
There has been strong reaction both within the Jewish community and without to a tirade of antisemitic tweets against federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
The Remembrance Day launch earlier this week of a new book about Sir John Monash has led to calls for the military commander to be posthumously promoted to the rank of field marshal.
The Abbott Government is committed to repealing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. This sensitive topic was the subject of two important exchanges in parliament today...in the Senate, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis declared that "people have a right to be bigots" and in the House of Representatives Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: "Sometimes free speech will be speech which upsets people".
There was a rare moment in the Australian Parliament recently when two of Australia’s leading Jewish Parliamentarians Michael Danby Labor MP for Melbourne Ports and Josh Frydenberg Federal Liberal MP for Kooyong sat opposite each other on duty at the despatch boxes in the House of Representatives.
