Josh Frydenberg

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Josh Frydenberg

Josh Frydenberg (born July 17, 1971 in Melbourne ) is an Australian politician of the Liberal Party of Australia . He is a member of the Australian Parliament .

life and career

Frydenberg grew up in a Jewish family in Kew . Frydenberg attended Bialik College in Hawthorn and then finished secondary school at Mt Scopus College in Burwood.

After school, Frydenberg postponed beginning his studies for a year to play full-time tennis. During this time he trained at a tennis academy in Queensland and took part in satellite tournaments across Australia and other tournaments in Switzerland and Germany. Back in Australia, Frydenberg began his tertiary studies at Monash University , where he studied law and economics and graduated with honors. While at Monash University, Frydenberg was an active member of the student body and was elected to the presidency of the Law Students Society. He was also selected to represent Australia in tennis at the 1991 World University Games in Sheffield , England and again in Buffalo , USA in 1993 . He was both a volunteer reader of the radio station 3RPH (Radio for the Print Handicapped) and a volunteer trainer for the Kids Tennis Foundation, where he gave tennis lessons to young people with intellectual disabilities. In 2003, Frydenberg accepted the offer of Chairman of the Kids Tennis Foundation, Paul McNamee , to move to the board and has been a member ever since. After graduating, Frydenberg completed his legal clerkship at Mallesons Stephen Jaques law firm. He was offered both a Fulbright program to the United States and a scholarship to Oxford University from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom. He accepted the Commonwealth Fellowship at Oxford University for a Masters of Philosophy in International Relations. As a member of the Oxford tennis team, with whom he toured Hong Kong and Morocco , he received two full blues.

After Oxford, Frydenberg returned to Mallesons and was subsequently admitted to the bar and to the Victoria Supreme Court. From 1999 to 2004 Frydenberg worked as a ministerial advisor in Canberra . He then worked as an assistant advisor to then Attorney General Daryl Williams , as an advisor and later as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Alexander Downer, and finally as a senior adviser to former Prime Minister John Howard . After leaving Canberra, Frydenberg spent a month as a jackaroo on a sheep farm in South Australia before joining Deutsche Bank in January 2005 as Director of Global Banking . Later that year Frydenberg, took leave to a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University to be completed before he returned in 2006 to Deutsche Bank in Melbourne.

During his first term in Parliament, Frydenberg was appointed a member of the Joint Committee on Public Finance and Audit and the Joint Elected Committee on Gambling Reform. He was vice chairman of the coalition's Productivity Priorities Working Group and a member of a committee appointed by Tony Abbott to advise him on the establishment of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). In September 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott appointed Frydenberg as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, with particular responsibility for implementing the coalition's deregulation agenda. In December 2014, Frydenberg was appointed Deputy Treasurer of Australia to the Ministry. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appointed him Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia in September 2015 and Minister for Environment and Energy in July 2016. Opinion articles have been written about him for publications such as The Age , The Herald Sun , The Australian and The Australian Financial Review .

Private

Beyond politics, Frydenberg remained an avid tennis player and developed an interest in photography after showing his first exhibition at a gallery in Richmond in 2008. Frydenberg currently resides in Hawthorn with his wife Amie, whom he married in 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/josh-frydenberg-risks-row-with-jewish-leaders-on-race-act-reform/news-story/5f1dac8f2e0d95ad899ab8d17c4af77e
personal data
SURNAME Frydenberg, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian Liberal Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia