Joe Gersh appointed to ABC board by Turnbull Government

Our stablemate The Sydney Morning Herald had a whiff of it first, to be sure. And now its official: Melbourne businessman Joseph Gersh has been appointed by the Turnbull government to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

After the recent retirements of Luminis Partners’ Simon Mordant and Deutsche’s Steven Skala, Aunty’s board was briefly short of its requisite Jewish investment banker. All is again right with the world! Well, at least Colin Rubenstein‘s…

Arnold Bloch Leibler’s former office managing partner is no stranger to Commonwealth directorships, serving for nine years as chair of the $10 billion Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation and 15 years on the Reserve Bank’s Payment Systems Board. Gersh was also the Australia Council’s deputy chair.

Read the article from The Australian Financial Review by Joe Aston. In the second paragraph of the article there is a tinge of Jewish stereotyping that has been  common in anti-semitic circles over time.