COMMUNITY/ACTIVISM

Josh Frydenberg

Filmmaker

Australia's former Treasurer and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party—whose Hungarian Jewish mother survived the Holocaust—became a defining voice against Australian antisemitism in the wake of the December 2025 Bondi Beach massacre that killed 15 Jews celebrating Chanukah. His May 2024 Sky News documentary "Never Again: The Fight Against Antisemitism," featuring interviews with Prime Ministers across the political spectrum, had warned of exactly this trajectory: Jewish families living in fear, businesses vandalized, and Holocaust survivors seeing 1930s Germany "repeated in Australia." When two gunmen opened fire on the "Chanukah by the Sea" celebration at Bondi Beach—killing a 10-year-old, a Holocaust survivor, and Rabbi Eli Schlanger among others—Frydenberg's documentary became tragically prophetic. Now chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia/New Zealand after losing his Melbourne seat in 2022, he spoke at a February antisemitism summit declaring: "This is Australia's fight...a fight that we all must and will win."