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

Chief Justice of Australia

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

Liberal Reform

Nationalist

 1898-1919 Speaker of the Legislative Assembly [2]
Morton Cohen Bligh Liberal 1965-68 [2]
Samuel Cohen Morpeth Independent 1860 [2]
Albert Collins Narrabri

Namoi

 Liberal Reform

Independent Liberal

 1901-10 [2]
Charles Collins Namoi

Narrabri

 Independent

Protectionist

Free Trade

 1885-87

1890-98

 [2]
Margaret Davis Member of the Legislative Council Liberal 1967-78 [2]
Syd Einfeld Bondi

Waverley

 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

Member of the Legislative Council

 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

Member of the Legislative Council

 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

Peats

 Labor 1973-84 [2]
Leyser Levin Hume Independent 1880-85 [2]
Lewis Levy Liverpool Plains

West Maitland

 Independent 1871-72

1874

 [2]
Sir Daniel Levy Sydney-Fitzroy

Darlinghurst

Sydney

Paddington

Woollahra

 Liberal Reform

Nationalist

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

Liberal Reform

 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

Chief Justice of New South Wales

 [2]
Sir Saul Samuel MLC for counties of Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington

Orange

Wellington

Member of the Legislative Council

 Independent 1854-56

1859-80

 Minister in state government

Received baronet

 [2]
Leon Snider Member of the Legislative Council Liberal

Country Party

 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

Cunningham

 Independent 1878-81

1883-88

1899-1903

 [2]
Isidor Lissner Kennedy

Cairns

 Ministerialist 1883-93

1896-99

 [2]

South Australia
Name Electorate Party Years Notes Source
Sir Lewis Cohen North Adelaide

Adelaide

 Independent

ADL

 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

West Adelaide

 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

National Defence League

 1890-1901

1905-08

 Premier of South Australia

Also served in federal parliament

Tasmania
Name Electorate Party Years Notes Source
Joseph Cohen Launceston Independent 1860-61 [2]
John Davies Hobart Town

Devon

Franklin

 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]
Charles Dyte Ballarat East Independent 1864-71 [2]
Benjamin Fink 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

East Melbourne

MLC for North Yarra Province

 Independent 1860-65

1866-68

1892-1904

 [2]
Jonas Levien South Grant

Barwon

 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

Lyndhurst

Keysborough

 Labor 2006- Minister in state government [2]
Pharez Phillips MLC for North Western Province Independent 1896-1901 [2]
Sidney Ricardo South Bourke Independent 1857-59 [2]
Samuel Samuel Dundas Independent 1892-92 [2]
Helen Shardey Electoral district of Caulfield Liberal 1996-2010 [9]
Baron Snider St Kilda

MLC for Higinbotham Province

 Liberal 1955-66 [2]
David Southwick Caulfield Liberal 2010- [2]
Emanuel Steinfeld MLC for Wellington Independent 1892-93 [2]
Joseph Sternberg MLC for Northern Province

MLC for Bendigo

 Independent

Nationalist

 1891-1902

1904-1928

 [2]
Marsha Thomson MLC for Melbourne North

Footscray

 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

Metropolitan-Suburban Province

 WA Liberal Party

Nationalist

 1917-18

1922-24

 [2]
Matthew Moss North Fremantle

MLC for West Province

 Independent

WA Liberal Party

 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

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