Michael Danby
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
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: Victorian MP Martin Foley, ALP Macnamara candidate Josh Burns and Deputy ALP Leader Tanya Plibersek at Burns’ campaign launch. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 19, 2019, 12:00 am
Plibersek at Burns launch
AN enthusiastic crowd of ALP supporters packed into St Kilda's Hotel Esplanade for the launch of Josh Burns' bid to keep Macnamara in Labor hands.
By Peter Kohn
Applause for Michael Danby and an embrace from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten last week. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
April 12, 2019, 12:00 am
‘The last MP for Melbourne Ports’
Michael Danby has reflected on his 20 years in politics as he delivered his valedictory speech to Federal Parliament.
Mount Scopus principal Rabbi James Kennard (left) with ALP candidate Josh Burns at Caulfield Hospital last Sunday. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 4, 2019, 9:26 am
Mount Scopus heading to Caulfield?
MOUNT Scopus College's dream of moving the entire school to Caulfield could be confirmed within 18 months.
By Peter Kohn
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad faces the media on Monday. Photo: AP Photo/Yam G-Jun
January 31, 2019, 12:01 am
Disqualified!
THE International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships.
By Gareth Narunsky
People at the rally performed Nazi salutes. Photo: Screengrab, ABC News
January 10, 2019, 12:01 am
‘Confine these views to the dustbin of history’
JEWISH leaders have joined a legion of Australians condemning an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on Saturday attended by Queensland senator Fraser Anning, at which neo-Nazi salutes were made and Nazi paraphernalia was displayed.
By Peter Kohn
Federal Greens Leader Richard Di Natale. Photo: AAP Image/Penny Stephens
November 29, 2018, 12:00 am
The Greens vote against our national security
It is The Greens' parliamentary habit of voting against all measures to enhance our counter-terror response that must be exposed to Australians.
Marise Payne addressing the UN General Assembly. Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
October 11, 2018, 12:01 am
Payne’s painful silence on the Iranian threat
MARISE Payne is the new Foreign Minister of Australia; she will be an even blander version of Julie Bishop. Her first speech to the United Nations was an extremely cautious restatement of the Coalition's foreign policy in her first international platform. As The Australian newspaper editorialised, she lost an opportunity to give real meaning "to Australia's stance on global issues". 
Kate Ashmor.
September 7, 2018, 12:01 am
Ashmor to take on Burns
THE battle for the Melbourne bayside seat of Macnamara (Melbourne Ports) at the next federal election will be fought out between two well-known members of the Jewish community after community figure Kate Ashmor won what she called "a tough and democratic preselection" for the Liberals.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull arrive at Admiralty House. Photo: Noel Kessel
August 30, 2018, 12:01 am
‘I feel very much at home in the Jewish community’
FORMER PM Malcolm Turnbull has paid tribute to the Jewish community for its support as he reflected on his 15 years in Parliament in an interview with The AJN.
By Gareth Narunsky
Jeremy Corbyn. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
August 24, 2018, 12:00 am
Recognising the threat of Comrade Corbyn
You would hardly know it in Australia, but for the last month Britain has been transfixed by the renewed row over Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's failure to address rampant anti-Jewish bigotry in his party.
Kate Ashmor.
August 22, 2018, 11:55 am
Libs vie for Macnamara
LAWYER Kate Ashmor is the only Jewish nominee and female among several Liberals contesting for preselection as the party's candidate for Macnamara (formerly Melbourne Ports), to be decided by the Liberals on September 2.
By Peter Kohn
The launch of Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel. Photo: Greg Every
July 29, 2018, 12:01 am
Liberal friends rally for Israel
MORE than 300 supporters gathered at Central Shule in Caulfield, as Victorian Liberals, including federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, relaunched Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel.
By Peter Kohn
Josh Burns.
July 26, 2018, 12:01 am
Burns to replace Danby
BEING officially endorsed by Labor's national executive on Tuesday as the party's candidate for Macnamara, the new name of Michael Danby's seat of Melbourne Ports, was "an extremely proud moment" for Josh Burns.
By Joshua Levi
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