Josh Burns (politician)
Australian politician (born 1987)
Joshua Solomon Burns (born 6 February 1987) is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party, he was elected as the member for the division of Macnamara in Melbourne at the 2019 Australian federal election. He was re-elected in 2022 and 2025.
Early life
Burns was born and raised in Caulfield, Victoria. His maternal grandmother came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. His paternal grandfather was born in London and came to Australia via Israel, while his paternal grandmother was born in Scotland. His grandfather fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He was educated at Gardenvale Primary School and Mt Scopus Memorial College, a Jewish day school. He then went to Monash University, where he initially studied commerce, before switching to politics and history. In his youth, Burns was a chair of the Melbourne SKIF, the youth wing of the Australian Jewish Labour Bund.
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