Facts are surfacing about Josh Frydenberg’s mother’s citizenship and the lie he tried to spin, writes investigations editor Ross Jones.
AS SCOMO might exclaim, if he wasn’t speaking in tongues, “How good was it not to be a European Jew in 1943?”
Probably not that good, but an awful lot better than being a Jew.
The gut-wrenching tales of the horror these poor people endured under the fascists has entered the human psyche as a moment, a marker, forever to be referred to when the very worst of human nature gains supremacy.
That’s what makes the Holocaust defence of Josh Frydenberg’s right to be in the Australian parliament so offensive.
Speaking in 2017, then Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek warned the questions about Mr Frydenberg’s eligibility for Parliament were “getting into pretty disturbing territory. I mean, these people like many millions fled the Holocaust,’’ she said.
The problem is that it’s not the point, not the reason for Frydenberg’s possible – or probable – ineligibility.
Frydenberg might yet fall to an s44, though this article has nothing to do with any such possibility. It’s unlikely at best.
What this article is about is Frydenberg knowingly giving false information to the Parliament.
In his Statement in Relation to Citizenship – 45th Parliament, Joshua Anthony Frydenberg correctly notedhis mother’s birth details as 5 October 1943 in Budapest.
Read the article by Ross Jones on Independent Australia.