merge Federal Election
The poster for Berowra MP Julian Leeser defaced with dollar signs over his eyes.
May 30, 2019, 12:00 am
Leeser: Dirtiest, nastiest election I can remember
RE-ELECTED MP for Berowra Julian Leeser despaired that the recent federal election campaign was "singularly the dirtiest and nastiest election I can remember".
By sophie deutsch and adam kamien
Labor's Josh Burns won the Melbourne seat of Macnamara.
May 23, 2019, 12:00 am
Macnamara’s first MP
Labor's Josh Burns won the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, making him the newest Jewish Member of Parliament.
By Peter Kohn
Dave Sharma addressing the media. Photos: Gareth Narunsky
May 23, 2019, 12:00 am
Sharma: ‘I will always stand up for Israel’
NEW Wentworth Liberal MP Dave Sharma has pledged to "always stand up for Israel" and to be a "fervent combatant" of antisemitism and the anti-Israel boycott movement.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have made their final pitches to readers of The Australian Jewish News ahead of Saturday's federal election.
May 16, 2019, 12:00 am
Leaders’ final pitches to readers
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have made their final pitches to readers of The Australian Jewish News ahead of Saturday's federal election.
Josh Frydenberg. Photo: Peter Haskin.
May 15, 2019, 4:15 pm
Just Josh
Treasurer, deputy Liberal leader and top Jew in the country Josh Frydenberg shares a more personal side of his life with Rebecca Davis.
By Rebecca Davis
The AJN’s Yossi Aron early voting at a previous federal election. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 25, 2019, 12:00 am
Vote from next Monday
PRE-POLLING for the federal election opens on Monday, April 29, with the Australian Electoral Commission to release a list of voting locations later this week.
By Gareth Narunsky
From left: Dr Kerryn Phelps MP, Dave Sharma and Tim Murray at the AUJS/AJN Wentworth forum. Photo: Henry Benjamin
April 18, 2019, 12:00 am
Antisemitic email targets Phelps
ONLY days into the federal election campaign, the race for the seat of Wentworth has been sullied by an offensive email targeting Jewish MP Dr Kerryn Phelps.
By Gareth Narunsky
Candidate forums will be held for two key Sydney seats with large Jewish populations ahead of the upcoming NSW and federal elections.
March 6, 2019, 3:19 pm
Election forums – ask the candidates
With both a state (NSW) and a federal election looming, two upcoming communal forums will give members of the community a chance to hear from candidates in two key seats.
By AJN STAFF
Anat Sultan-Dadon at the Sydney communal Yom Hazikaron commemoration this year. Photo: Nadine Saacks Photography
August 29, 2018, 10:37 am
Embassy’s Sultan-Dadon fondly farewell’s Australia
Australia's close relations with Israel will remain strong should Labor win the next federal election, outgoing deputy chief of mission at the Israeli Embassy Anat Sultan-Dadon believes.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
July 14, 2016, 12:00 am
Turnbull welcomed by community
Communal leaders have congratulated Malcolm Turnbull on being returned as Prime Minister of Australia after more than a week of vote-counting by the Australian Electoral Commission.
By Joshua Levi
Julian Leeser. Photo: Noel Kessel
July 7, 2016, 12:00 am
Record number of Jews elected
Australians have voted, and while the final results are still being determined, the country has decided to elect three new Jewish politicians.
By Joshua Levi
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are wishing the community a happy Chanukah.
June 30, 2016, 12:00 am
Leaders’ final pleas to Jewish voters
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten have made last-minute pitches to the Jewish community just days before the Federal Election.
Greens candidate for Macnamara, Steph Hodgins-May.
June 30, 2016, 12:00 am
Messy campaign for Melbourne Ports
The battle for Melbourne Ports is on a knife edge this week after recent polling revealed that the Greens candidate Steph Hodgins-May has closed the gap on Labor’s Michael Danby, and possibly pulled ahead.
By Joshua Levi
Greens candidate for Higgins, Jason Ball.
May 13, 2016, 12:00 am
Higgins candidate cans camp comparison
THE Greens candidate for Higgins at the Federal Election said that he removed an article, “Our detention centres are concentration camps and must be closed”, from his Facebook page when he realised that he had posted it on Yom Hashoah.
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