Just Josh
Published in The Australian Jewish News
May 15, 2019
Photo: Peter Haskin/The Australian Jewish News.
When Josh Frydenberg enters the room, he does so with purpose. While his commanding presence is larger than his stature, it is balanced against a measured warmth. He offers a coffee as he leads the way to his office in his electorate of Kooyong. The walls are adorned with tributes to his sporting and political heroes, and mementos from his tennis days, which he proudly shares.
He is the Treasurer of Australia, and the deputy leader of the Liberal Party; the man many have predicted as a future prime minister.
But this morning, his mind is occupied by matters closer to home.
“I was a bit late because I was sitting having peanut butter toast and playing cubby houses with my son and looking at drawings with my daughter,” he explains.
“We were looking for treasure through the house that pirates might have left.”