List of Jewish members of Australian parliaments
Jews have been a part of the Australian parliament since federation. In 2016 a record number of 6 MPs identified as Jewish.[1] When Kerryn Phelps won the 2018 Wentworth by-election the number rose to 7, but subsequently dropped back to 6 following the 2019 Australian federal election.
Federal parliament[]
Name | Electorate | State | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Baume | Macarthur
Senator |
NSW | Liberal | 1975-83
1985-96 |
[2] | |
Peter Baume | Senator | NSW | Liberal | 1974-91 | Minister in Fraser Government | [2] |
Joe Berinson | Perth | WA | Labor | 1969-75 | Minister in Whitlam Government | [2] |
Josh Burns | Macnamara | Vic | Labor | 2019- | [3] | |
Moss Cass | Maribyrnong | Vic | Labor | 1969-83 | Minister in Whitlam Government | [2] |
Sam Cohen | Senator | Vic | Labor | 1962-69 | [2] | |
Barry Cohen | Robertson | NSW | Labor | 1969-90 | Minister in Hawke Government | [2] |
Michael Danby | Melbourne Ports | Vic | Labor | 1998-2019 | [4] | |
Mark Dreyfus | Isaacs | Vic | Labor | 2007- | Minister in Gillard and Rudd Government | [2] |
Syd Einfeld | Phillip | NSW | Labor | 1961-63 | [2] | |
Max Falstein | Watson | NSW | Labor
Independent |
1940-49 | [2] | |
Mike Freelander | Macarthur | NSW | Labor | 2016- | [2] | |
Josh Frydenberg | Kooyong | Vic | Liberal | 2010- | Minister in Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison Governments. Deputy leader of the Liberal Party |
[2] |
Stirling Griff | Senator | SA | Centre Alliance | 2016- | [2] | |
Sir Isaac Isaacs | Indi | Vic | Protectionist | 1901-06 | Minister in the Deakin Government
Governor-General of Australia |
[2] |
Lewis Kent | Hotham | Vic | Labor | 1980-90 | Stood for election in Israel for Maki | [2] |
Dick Klugman | Prospect | NSW | Labor | 1969-90 | [2] | |
Julian Leeser | Berowra | NSW | Liberal | 2016- | [2] | |
Dr Kerryn Phelps | Wentworth | NSW | Independent | 2018-19 | [5] | |
Pharez Phillips | Wimmera | Vic | Protectionist | 1901-06 | [2] | |
Elias Solomon | Fremantle | WA | Free Trade | 1901-03 | Mayors of Fremantle | [2] |
Vaiben Louis Solomon | South Australia | SA | Free Trade | 1901-03 | Premier of South Australia | [2] |
State parliaments[]
New South Wales[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maurice Alexander | Goulburn | Independent | 1861-72 | [2] | |
Morris Asher | Hume | Independent | 1859-60 | [2] | |
Henry Cohen | West Maitland | Independent | 1874-80 | [2] | |
Ian Cohen | Member of the Legislative Council | Greens | 1995-2011 | [2] | |
John Cohen | Petersham | Protectionist Party | 1898-1919 | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly | [2] |
Morton Cohen | Bligh | Liberal | 1965-68 | [2] | |
Samuel Cohen | Morpeth | Independent | 1860 | [2] | |
Albert Collins | Narrabri | Liberal Reform
Independent Liberal |
1901-10 | [2] | |
Charles Collins | Namoi | Independent
Protectionist Free Trade |
1885-87
1890-98 |
[2] | |
Margaret Davis | Member of the Legislative Council | Liberal | 1967-78 | [2] | |
Syd Einfeld | Bondi | Labor | 1965-1981 | Also served in federal parliament
Minister in state government |
[2] |
Samuel Emmanuel | Argyle | Independent | 1862-64 | [2] | |
Derek Freeman | Member of the Legislative Council | Liberal | 1973-84 | [2] | |
Hyman Goldstein | Eastern Suburbs
Coogee |
Nationalist | 1922-25
1927-28 |
Mayor of Randwick | [2] |
Ron Hoenig | Heffron | Labor | 2012- | Mayor of Botany Bay | [2] |
Solomon Hyam | Balmain | Protectionist | 1885-87
1892-1901 |
Mayor of Balmain | [2] |
Sir Asher Joel | Member of the Legislative Council | Country Party | 1958-78 | [2] | |
Samuel Joseph | West Sydney | Independent | 1864-68
1882-85 1887-93 |
[2] | |
Dr John Kaye | Member of the Legislative Council | Greens | 2007-16 | [2] | |
Abe Landa | Bondi | Labor | 1930-32
1941-65 |
Minister in state government | [2] |
Paul Landa | Member of the Legislative Council | Labor | 1973-84 | [2] | |
Leyser Levin | Hume | Independent | 1880-85 | [2] | |
Lewis Levy | Liverpool Plains | Independent | 1871-72
1874 |
[2] | |
Sir Daniel Levy | Sydney-Fitzroy
Woollahra |
Liberal Reform
United Australia |
1901-37 | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly | [2] |
Ernest Marks | North Sydney | Nationalist | 1927-30 | [2] | |
Solomon Meyer | Carcoar | Independent | 1874-76 | [2] | |
Ernest Mitchell | Member of the Legislative Council | United Australia Party | 1934-43 | [2] | |
Jacob Levi Montefiore | Member of the Legislative Council | Independent | 1856-60
1874-77 |
[2] | |
Phillip Myers | Argyle | Independent | 1880-81 | [2] | |
Harris Nelson | Orange | Independent | 1872-77 | [2] | |
Simeon Phillips | Dubbo | Free Trade | 1895-1904 | [2] | |
Joseph Raphael | West Sydney | Independent | 1872-74 | [2] | |
Eric Roozendaal | Member of the Legislative Council | Labor | 2004-13 | Minister in state government | [2] |
Julian Salomons | Member of the Legislative Council | Independent | 1870-71
1887-99 |
Minister in state government | [2] |
Sir Saul Samuel | MLC for counties of Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington | Independent | 1854-56
1859-80 |
Minister in state government
Received baronet |
[2] |
Leon Snider | Member of the Legislative Council | Liberal | 1943-65 | [2] |
Northern Territory[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jon Isaacs | Millner | Labor | 1977-81 | Leader of the Opposition | [6] |
Queensland[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Louis Goldring | Flinders | Independent | 1888-93 | Mayor of Hughenden | [2] |
Jacob Horwitz | Warwick | Liberal Party | 1878-87 | Mayor of Warwick | [2] |
Francis Benjamin Kates | Darling Downs | Independent | 1878-81
1883-88 1899-1903 |
[2] | |
Isidor Lissner | Kennedy | Ministerialist | 1883-93
1896-99 |
[2] |
South Australia[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sir Lewis Cohen | North Adelaide | Independent | 1887-93
1902-06 |
Mayor of Adelaide | [2] |
Morris Lyon Marks | The Burra and Clare | Independent | 1857-58 | [2] | |
Maurice Salom | MLC for South Australia | Independent | 1882-91 | [2] | |
Emanuel Solomon | West Adelaide
MLC for South Australia |
Independent | 1862-65
1867-71 |
[2] | |
Judah Moss Solomon | City of Adelaide
MLC for South Australia |
Independent | 1858-60
1861-65 1871-75 |
Mayor of Adelaide | [2] |
Saul Solomon | East Torrens | Independent | 1887-90 | [2] | |
Vaiben Louis Solomon | Northern Territory | Independent | 1890-1901
1905-08 |
Premier of South Australia
Also served in federal parliament |
Tasmania[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Launceston | Independent | 1860-61 | [2] | ||
John Davies | Hobart Town | Independent | 1884-1913 | Mayor of Hobart | [2] |
Victoria[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sir Benjamin Benjamin | MLC for Melbourne Province | Independent | 1889-92 | Mayor of Melbourne | [2] |
David Bornstein | Brunswick East | Labor | 1970-75 | [2] | |
Edward Cohen | East Melbourne | Independent | 1861-65
1868-77 |
Mayor of Melbourne | [2] |
Harold Cohen | Caulfield
MLC for Melbourne South |
Nationalist
United Australia Party |
1929-35
1935-43 |
Minister in state government | [2] |
Henry Cohen | MLC for Melbourne Province | Nationalist | 1921-37 | Minister in state government | [2] |
Philip Dalidakis | MLC for Southern Metropolitan Region | Labor | 2014-19 | Minister in state government | [7] |
Ballarat East | Independent | 1864-71 | [2] | ||
Maryborough and Talbot | Independent | 1883-89 | [2] | ||
Theodore Fink | Jolimont and West Richmond | Independent | 1894-1904 | [2] | |
Adolphus Goldsmith | MLC for Ripon, Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth | Independent | 1851-53 | [2] | |
Paul Hamer | Box Hill | Labor | 2018- | [8] | |
Max Hirsch | Mandurang | Ministerial | 1902-03 | [2] | |
Jennifer Huppert | MLC for Southern Metropolitan | Labor | 2009-10 | [2] | |
Sir Isaac Isaacs | Bogong | Independent | 1892-1901 | [2] | |
John Alfred Isaacs | Ovens | Independent | 1894-1902 | [2] | |
Walter Jona | Hawthorn | Liberal | 1964-85 | Minister in state government | [2] |
Daniel Barnet Lazarus | Sandhurst | Independent | 1893-97
1900-02 |
Mayor of Sandhurst | [2] |
Nathaniel Levi | Maryborough | Independent | 1860-65
1866-68 1892-1904 |
[2] | |
Jonas Levien | South Grant | Independent | 1871-77
1880-1906 |
Minister in state government | [2] |
Archie Michaelis | St Kilda | United Australia Party
Liberal |
1932-52 | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly | [2] |
Martin Pakula | MLC for Western Metropolitan | Labor | 2006- | Minister in state government | [2] |
Pharez Phillips | MLC for North Western Province | Independent | 1896-1901 | [2] | |
South Bourke | Independent | 1857-59 | [2] | ||
Dundas | Independent | 1892-92 | [2] | ||
Helen Shardey | Electoral district of Caulfield | Liberal | 1996-2010 | [9] | |
Baron Snider | St Kilda | Liberal | 1955-66 | [2] | |
David Southwick | Caulfield | Liberal | 2010- | [2] | |
MLC for Wellington | Independent | 1892-93 | [2] | ||
Joseph Sternberg | MLC for Northern Province | Independent | 1891-1902
1904-1928 |
[2] | |
Marsha Thomson | MLC for Melbourne North | Labor | 2006-18 | Minister in state government | [10] |
Evan Thornley | MLC for Southern Metropolitan | Labor | 2006-08 | [11][12] | |
Ephraim Zox | East Melbourne | Independent | 1877-99 | [2] |
Western Australia[]
Name | Electorate | Party | Years | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe Berinson | MLC for North-East Metropolitan Province
MLC for North Central Metropolitan Province MLC for North Metropolitan |
Labor | 1980-93 | Also served in federal parliament
Minister in the Gough Whitlam |
[2] |
Harry Boan | Metropolitan Province | WA Liberal Party | 1917-18
1922-24 |
[2] | |
Matthew Moss | North Fremantle
MLC for West Province |
Independent | 1895-97
1900-01 1902-14 |
Minister in state government | [2] |
Sir Charles Nathan | MLC for Metropolitan-Suburban Province | Nationalist | 1930-34 | [2] | |
Lionel Samson | MLC for Western Australian | Independent | 1849-56
1859-68 |
[2] | |
Elias Solomon | South Fremantle | Independent | 1892-1901 | Mayor of Fremantle
Also served in federal parliament |
See also[]
References[]
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