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  Frydenberg, Joshua
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<-  2019-01-01  
 
NameJoshua Frydenberg
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, Victoria , Australia
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Born July 17, 1971 (52 years)
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InfoJosh Frydenberg was elected to the Australian Parliament in 2010 as the Member for Kooyong. He is the seventh person since Federation to hold this seat.

Josh was born in 1971 and raised in Kew, where he spent many of his formative years and where his grandparents lived for more than 30 years.

As a primary school student Josh attended Bialik College in Hawthorn and then completed his secondary schooling at Mt Scopus College in Burwood.

After completing the HSC, Josh deferred the start of his university studies by a year to play tennis full time. During this period he trained at a tennis academy in Queensland and competed at satellite tournaments throughout Australia as well as other tournaments in Switzerland and Germany.

Returning to Australia, Josh began his tertiary studies at Monash University where he undertook Law and Economics degrees, graduating with Honours in both. During his time at Monash, Josh was an active member of the student body and was elected to the Presidency of the Law Students Society. He was also chosen to represent Australia in tennis at the World University Games, in 1991 in Sheffield, England and again in 1993 in Buffalo, United States.

At university Josh was involved in a number of community activities. He was both a volunteer reader for radio station 3RPH (Radio for the Print Handicapped) and a volunteer coach for the Kids Tennis Foundation where he taught tennis to young people with an intellectual disability. In 2003 Josh accepted an invitation from the Kids Tennis Foundation’s Chairman Paul McNamee to join the board, and has been a member ever since.

After Monash, Josh undertook his articles of clerkship at the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He was offered both a Fulbright scholarship to the United States and a scholarship to Oxford University from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom. He accepted the Commonwealth Scholarship to Oxford University where he completed a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree in International Relations. He was twice awarded a Full Blue as a member of the Oxford tennis team with whom he toured to Hong Kong and Morocco.

After Oxford Josh returned to Mallesons and was subsequently admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. From 1999-2004 Josh worked as a ministerial adviser in Canberra. He worked in succession as an assistant adviser for the then Attorney General, The Hon. Daryl Williams QC, as an adviser and later senior adviser to the Foreign Minister The Hon. Alexander Downer and finally as a senior adviser to the Prime Minister, The Hon. John Howard.

After leaving Canberra Josh spent a month as a jackaroo on a sheep station in South Australia before joining Deutsche Bank as a Director of Global Banking in January 2005. Later that year Josh took leave to complete a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, before returning in 2006 to Deutsche Bank in Melbourne.

Josh has a keen interest in public policy debates and is interviewed frequently on radio and television as well as writing a number of opinion editorials for publications including The Age, The Herald Sun, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.

During his first term in parliament, Josh was appointed a member of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit and the Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform. He was a co-deputy chair of the Coalition’s Productivity Priorities Working Group, and a member of a committee established by Tony Abbott to advise him on the re-establishment of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). In September 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott appointed Josh to the government’s front bench as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, with specific responsibility for implementing the Coalition’s deregulation agenda. In December 2014, Josh was appointed to the ministry as Assistant Treasurer. In September 2015, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appointed Josh to the Ministry as Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia. In July 2016 Josh was appointed as Minister for the Environment and Energy.

On 24 August 2018 Josh was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. He was appointed Treasurer of Australia by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Away from politics Josh remains an avid tennis player, and has developed an interest in photography having held his first exhibition in 2008 at a gallery in Richmond.

Josh is honoured to represent the Kooyong community and be member of the Morrison Government. He will continue to be a strong voice on key local, national and international issues in the Federal Parliament.

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  05/21/2022 VIC MP - Kooyong Lost 47.06% (-5.89%)
  05/18/2019 VIC MP - Kooyong Won 55.70% (+11.40%)
  08/24/2018 AUS Treasurer Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  08/24/2018 Liberal Party Parliamentary Deputy Leader Won 56.10% (+31.71%)
  07/19/2016 AUS Minister for Environment & Energy Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/02/2016 VIC MP - Kooyong Won 63.34% (+26.68%)
  09/07/2013 VIC MP - Kooyong Won 61.06% (+22.12%)
  08/21/2010 Vic MP - Kooyong Won 57.55% (+15.10%)
ENDORSEMENTS
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VIC MLA - Nepean - LIB Preselection - Feb 22, 2022 LIB Sam Groth
VIC MLA - Kew - LIB Preselection - Dec 11, 2021 LIB Jess Wilson
VIC MP - Menzies - LIB Preselection - Jan 31, 2021 LIB Kevin Andrews
NSW MP - Wentworth - By Election - LIB Preselection - Sep 13, 2018 LIB Dave Sharma
Liberal Party Parliamentary Leader - Aug 24, 2018 LIB Scott Morrison
Liberal Party Parliamentary Leader - Aug 21, 2018 LIB Malcolm Turnbull
AUS Marriage Law Postal Survey - Nov 07, 2017 YES Yes
AUS Speaker of the House - Aug 10, 2015 LIB Tony Smith