Joshua Anthony Frydenberg () (born 17 July 1971) is an Australian former politician who served as the
treasurer of Australia
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and deputy leader of the
Liberal Party
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from 2018 to 2022. He also served as a
member of parliament
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(MP) for the
division of Kooyong
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from 2010 to 2022.
After leaving university, Frydenberg served as an adviser to Prime Minister
John Howard
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and Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer
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during the
Howard Government. He also worked for
Deutsche Bank
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until his election to the
Australian House of Representatives
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The term of members o ...
at the
2010 federal election. Quickly appointed to the frontbench, he went on to serve in several ministerial roles during the
Abbott and
Turnbull governments from 2013 to 2018, including as
Minister for Resources and
Minister for the Environment and Energy
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. In August 2018, he was elected as deputy leader of the Liberal Party following a
leadership spill
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, which saw
Scott Morrison
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elected as leader and prime minister. Morrison subsequently appointed Frydenberg as Treasurer.
At the
2022 federal election, Frydenberg suffered a significant swing against him, and lost his seat to the
teal independent
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candidate
Monique Ryan
Monique Marie Ryan (born 20 January 1967) is an Australian paediatric neurologist and politician. She is currently the member of parliament for the federal seat of Kooyong after defeating Josh Frydenberg at the 2022 Australian federal election.
...
. Frydenberg became the first sitting treasurer to lose his seat since
Ted Theodore
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at the
1931 election. After leaving politics, he became an advisor at investment bank
Goldman Sachs.
Early life and education
Frydenberg was born in
Melbourne
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and educated at
Bialik and
Mount Scopus
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Colleges. His mother, Erika Strausz, is a psychologist and
University of Melbourne
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professor and his father Harry is a general surgeon. His mother was a
Jewish Hungarian
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born in 1943 who arrived in Australia in 1950 as a stateless child from a refugee camp after escaping
the Holocaust
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. His father is also Jewish; his grandparents emigrated to Australia from Poland in the 1930s.
Throughout his childhood, Frydenberg was a keen
tennis
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player. He lobbied his parents, unsuccessfully, to
drop out of high school to pursue a career in tennis. When they refused, Frydenberg stuck up a handwritten sign on his bedroom: “the pain of discipline is far easier than the pain of regret". After finishing high school, he took a
gap year
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to play tennis full-time in Australia and Europe. Frydenberg played against
Mark Philippoussis
Mark Anthony Philippoussis ( ; born 7 November 1976) is an Australian former professional tennis player of Greek and Italian descent. Philippoussis' greatest achievements are winning two Davis Cup titles with Australia in 1999 and 2003, wi ...
and
Pat Rafter
Patrick Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. He reached the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking on 26 July 1999. His career highlights include consecutive US Open ...
, and represented Australia at two
World University Games. He and his father were present at the 1997
Maccabiah bridge collapse
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.
Frydenberg completed
honours degrees in economics and law at
Monash University
Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...
, where he became president of the Law Students Society, before working at
Mallesons Stephen Jaques, a large Australian commercial law firm. Frydenberg won both a
Fulbright Scholarship to attend
Yale University
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and a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the
University of Oxford
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. He opted to accept the latter, completing a Master of International Relations at
University College, Oxford
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, with a thesis on Indonesian politics. While deciding between Oxford and Yale, he was introduced to and developed friendships with
Greg Hunt
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, a Fulbright Scholar and future cabinet colleague, and Sir
Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended ...
, a former Australian governor-general and Oxford
provost. He was introduced to the latter through their mutual friend
Steven Skala. Cowen "became a mentor to Frydenberg and they spent many Sundays together discussing literature, music, philosophy and law".
[ While at Oxford, Frydenberg was a member of the ]Oxford University L'Chaim Society
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.
Frydenberg has also earned a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government
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at Harvard University
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.
Frydenberg is one of seven Liberal MPs in the 46th Parliament of Australia who have obtained degrees at an Oxbridge or Ivy League
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university, the others being Alan Tudge
Alan Tudge (born 24 February 1971) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 federal election. He was a cabinet minister in the Morrison government fr ...
, Angus Taylor, Andrew Laming
Andrew Charles Laming (born 30 September 1966) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland, for the Liberal National Party of Queensland from 2004 to 2022. H ...
, Dave Sharma
Devanand Noel "Dave" Sharma (born 21 December 1975) is an Australian former politician and former public servant and diplomat who served as member of parliament for Wentworth from 2019 to 2022. He lost the seat at the 2022 election to indep ...
, Greg Hunt
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and Paul Fletcher.
Early career
In 1999, Frydenberg worked as an assistant adviser to Attorney-General
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before becoming an adviser to Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer
Alexander John Gosse Downer (born 9 September 1951) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United King ...
, a post he held until 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he was a policy adviser to Prime Minister John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the ...
, specialising in domestic security issues, border protection, justice and industrial relations. In 2005 he took up a position as a Director of Global Banking with Deutsche Bank
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in the company's Melbourne office.
2006 preselection attempt
In 2006, Frydenberg announced that he was seeking Liberal preselection for Kooyong, a safe Liberal seat in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. He was contesting it against the incumbent member, Petro Georgiou
Petro Georgiou AO (born 30 November 1947) is a Greek Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.
Early life
Born i ...
, who had held the seat since 1994.
In the days leading to the preselection convention, Queensland frontbenchers Ian Macfarlane, Peter Dutton
Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970) is an Australian politician who has been leader of the opposition and leader of the Liberal Party since May 2022. He has represented the Queensland seat of Dickson in the House of Representatives sinc ...
and Santo Santoro
Santo Santoro (born 27 April 1956) is a former Australian politician and a former deputy leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1989 to 2001; and a member of the Australian Se ...
backed Frydenberg's credentials, for which they were criticised by former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett.
Georgiou won the nomination by gaining 62 of the 85 delegates' votes, with Frydenberg receiving 22 votes and a third candidate, Alastair Armstrong, receiving one vote. After Frydenberg's defeat, federal Treasurer and deputy Liberal leader Peter Costello
Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957) is an Australian businessman, lawyer and former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia in government of John Howard from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving treasurer in Australia' ...
, who represented the neighbouring seat of Higgins, encouraged Frydenberg to run for pre-selection in Chisholm, a marginal electorate neighbouring Kooyong, held by Anna Burke of the ALP. Frydenberg declined the offer, saying, "This is where I am from, this is where I feel most comfortable and this is where I think there is real work to be done."
After Georgiou announced his decision to retire at the 2010 election, Frydenberg won the preselection vote, defeating industrial lawyer John Pesutto
John Pesutto (born 5 September 1970) is an Australian politician and lawyer serving as the leader of the Opposition in Victoria, holding office as the leader of the Victorian Branch of the Liberal Party of Australia. He has been a member of t ...
. Frydenberg's candidacy was supported by references from former Prime Minister John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the ...
and former Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock
Andrew Sharp Peacock (13 February 193916 April 2021) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister and went on to become leader of the Liberal Party on two occasions (1983–1985 and 1989–1990), leading the pa ...
.
Member of Parliament
Georgiou retired ahead of the 2010 federal election. With the support of former Liberal state president Michael Kroger
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Early life
Kroger was educ ...
, Frydenberg won Liberal preselection, and went on to win the seat with 52.56% of the primary vote and 57.55% of the two-party-preferred vote
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. He was only the fifth person to represent this traditionally safe non-Labor seat in 88 years. He held the seat that was once held by Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Robert Menzies.
The first Jewish Liberal elected to the House of Representatives, in his maiden speech, Frydenberg recounted the story of his Jewish grandparents' and great aunt's migration to Australia from Nazi controlled Europe and lauded the contribution of migrants to communities within his electorate. He enunciated his belief in small government
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, called for stronger ties with Asia while also maintaining a solid alliance with the US and proposed a target of having two Australian universities within the world's top ten by 2030.
Frydenberg is a member of the centre-right faction of the Liberal Party.
Frydenberg has at times been the target of antisemitic attacks, such as defacing his election material with Nazi icons.
Abbott Government
At the 2013 federal election, Frydenberg was re-elected with the largest swing to the Liberal Party in the seat since 1975. He was sworn in as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister on 18 September 2013, with particular responsibility for the government's deregulation agenda. On 23 December 2014, Frydenberg was sworn in as Assistant Treasurer in a ministerial reshuffle and replaced Arthur Sinodinos
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, who resigned due to delays in an ICAC inquiry.
Turnbull Government
Following the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot where Malcolm Turnbull
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Turnbull grad ...
became the Prime Minister
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, Frydenberg was appointed the Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia
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in the First Turnbull Ministry
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. In February 2016, the Nationals Matt Canavan took over responsibility for Northern Australia in the rearranged ministry.
In 2015, he declared that he had switched positions regarding same-sex marriage
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and publicly supported same sex marriage.
With the re-election of the Turnbull Government in 2016
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, Frydenberg became the Minister for the Environment and Energy
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In the Government of Australia, the ...
in the Second Turnbull Ministry.
Parliamentary eligibility
In the years following the 2016 election, numerous members of parliament were deemed to be ineligible to sit in parliament due to them breaching Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia
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, which prohibits MPs from having dual citizenship.
In the course of the 2017-18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis, suggestions were raised that Frydenberg might be in breach of Section 44, as his mother and her family had come to Australia as refugees from Hungary and was stateless at the time, but subsequently Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
conferred citizenship by descent, which may have applied to Frydenberg. Documents from the National Archives show that Frydenberg's grandparents and mother were considered "Hungarian" when they arrived in Australia, but had applied for a certificate of exemption, listing their nationality as "stateless".
Labor Party MPs were split on whether the matter should be investigated: Mark Dreyfus
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indicated that he would pursue the matter, but other Labor MPs requested that he desist. Ed Husic
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said that he felt uncomfortable with his party questioning the legal citizenship of stateless Jewish refugees escaping Europe. Mark Butler
Mark Christopher Butler (born 8 July 1970) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2007. He was a minister in the Gillard and Rudd Governments and al ...
stated that it was not the party's official position to pursue the matter.
Following the 2019 election, Frydenberg was taken to court over the issue by a constituent, Michael Staindl. In March 2020, the Federal Court ruled that Frydenberg was eligible to sit in parliament. Frydenberg was awarded legal costs of $410,000 against Staindl, of which Staindl paid him $350,000. In July 2022, the Federal Court approved a settlement in which Staindl would make no further statement disparaging Frydenberg or his lawyers and no further payment would be required.
Morrison Government
Two leadership spills were carried out by the Liberal Party in August 2018, with the second resulting in Treasurer Scott Morrison
Scott John Morrison (; born 13 May 1968) is an Australian politician. He served as the 30th prime minister of Australia and as Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2018 to 2022, and is currently the member of parliament (MP) for th ...
replacing Malcolm Turnbull as party leader and prime minister. Julie Bishop
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did not seek re-election as deputy leader, and in the resulting ballot Frydenberg won a majority in the first round with 46 votes, while Trade Minister Steven Ciobo
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received 20 and Health Minister Greg Hunt
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received 16. During Morrison's subsequent press conference, he announced that Frydenberg would replace him as Treasurer.
Frydenberg delivered his first federal budget in April 2019. At the 2019 federal election, he retained his seat of Kooyong with a reduced majority, following a challenge from high-profile Greens candidate Julian Burnside
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. Perceiving Burnside as a strong contender, the Liberal Party doubled its spending on the campaign in Kooyong, from $500,000 to $1 million. Frydenberg received a primary swing of -8.2% against him, as well as the lowest Liberal vote in Kooyong in 97 years.
In July 2019 a Kooyong resident petitioned the High Court, as Court of Disputed Returns
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, for a ruling that Frydenberg had been ineligible owing to foreign citizenship, being allegedly a citizen of Hungary. On 23 November 2019 it was reported that Frydenberg had received confirmation from the Hungarian government that no record could be found of Hungarian citizenship of himself or his mother. On 12 December 2019, since factual as well as legal questions remained unresolved, Justice Gordon of the High Court (who was critical of parties' delay) referred the case to the Federal Court. On 17 March 2020, a Full Court of the Federal Court found on the basis of expert evidence that Frydenberg's maternal family had lost their Hungarian citizenship upon leaving Hungary, so that he was not and had never been a Hungarian citizen, and consequently he was not ineligible to be elected to the federal parliament.
In the lead-up to the 2022 election, Frydenberg's marginal seat of Kooyong faced a significant challenge by independent candidate Monique Ryan
Monique Marie Ryan (born 20 January 1967) is an Australian paediatric neurologist and politician. She is currently the member of parliament for the federal seat of Kooyong after defeating Josh Frydenberg at the 2022 Australian federal election.
...
, who was a part of the "teal independent
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" movement. At the election on 21 May, Frydenberg lost his seat to Ryan, and he conceded defeat two days later. Frydenberg's loss would mark the first time that the seat of Kooyong would not be held by the Liberal Party or its predecessors since its inception in 1901.
Frydenberg reportedly had a close working relationship with Morrison and "often stayed overnight at Kirribilli
Kirribilli is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. One of the city's most established and affluent neighbourhoods, it is located three kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area administere ...
".
Life after politics
In June, 2022, it was rumoured that Frydenberg was in the running to become next AFL CEO after the resignation of Gillon McLachlan
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, Frydenberg was quoted in saying that he is "looking at different private sector options". Eventually, Frydenberg joined investment bank Goldman Sachs as a senior regional advisor for the Asia Pacific.
Personal life
Frydenberg is married to Amie, and has two children, Gemma and Blake.
Frydenberg is a supporter of the Carlton Football Club
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Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Me ...
, and served as the club's number-one ticket holder for 2021 and 2022. In 2019, he was the Melbourne Storm
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number-one ticket holder.
See also
* List of Jewish members of Australian parliaments
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