Not long after he'd been elected to Parliament, Josh Frydenberg called a Melbourne journalist and served up a hot tip. The Myer family was considering offering its century-old Toorak mansion Cranlana as an official Melbourne residence for the prime minister, he said. Perhaps give the family a call and they might talk about it.
But even his detractors will grant him one thing: he has an unrivalled work ethic. Nothing proved this more than in January 2019, while when most of his cabinet colleagues were updating their LinkedIn profiles in anticipation of an election-year pounding, Frydenberg was taking the fight to Labor on tax day after day. All while he was consumed in a high-profile battle against Greens candidate, barrister Julian Burnside, in his blue-ribbon seat of Kooyong.
As Minister for Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg came as close as anyone to landing a broadly supported, coherent energy policy.This week marks two years since the Victorian rose from the flaming wreck of the National Energy Guarantee, the contentious policy of which he was given carriage by Malcolm Turnbull, to become deputy Liberal leader and Treasurer.
Following a high-profile spat with former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill over renewable energy three years ago, Frydenberg spent three hours on a Saturday afternoon texting selected gallery journalists the result of an online reader poll in the Adelaide Advertiser that showed he'd come out better of the pair.
"Great to see you all here in one room tonight," Scott Morrison said. "Because I know that Josh isn't on the phone to any of you."
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)
No
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg up to the task of rebuilding the economy? If ordering another set of 'Back in the Black' mug will fix it, we are home & hosed. If not we are in the shit big time!
Hard working? No Treasurer has sat in parliament a less days as a percentage of their term than this one. You couldn't be more ill-informed by watching Sky after dark.
Why ask the question? He will do what he and Scott are going to do anyway. They will please the big end of town and there will be no input from economists who dont fit their vision of a 'recovery.'
No.simply NO. You should know better than to ask a stupid question you know the answer to.
Of the qualities cited, shamelessly ambitious is about it.
I was watching qt & thinking how miserable & unhealthy he looks atm. Mind u he's not alone. But the mess they've made of their many handouts & refusals (eg uni staff) is frightening. Completely ott. They panicked & created the debt from hell. auspol
He’s a leaner with a pass in grade one maths and loves a stack. That’s it.
Nup!
After the onrushing depression this corrupt government that certainly only represents the selfish has allowed ? But his got the branch numbers right ?
No!!!
Scratch beyond the surface of this attempt at a promo puff piece, &it makes it clear Frydenberg works hard at networking & cultivating benefits from journos to do his bidding, but barely any time on steering Australia's economy - which was heading for recession even before covid.
No
🤣😆😂what a joke SMH under Nine has become! Race all the way to the gutter between you and NewsCorpse
Are you on drugs ' seriously!
No
No. PS Not hard working unless it's at lining his own pocket with the dollars stolen from his 'fellow Australians'
Fraudenberg's already been defined as a deceitful, lying and incompetent weasle. Just like the two treasurers who preceded him.
peter_bindley People pleaser🙂
No.
Not likely
Not nearly creative enough in his thinking. Far too blinkered by ideology and bounded by patronage to set out a transformative agenda.
The SMH story does not address the question so they must think no. I do as well. He is an economic lightweight by any measure and to date has not proposed any theory to recover our economy other than notional funding emergency funding
Would get my vote as the worst Treasurer this nation has seen. Out of his depth and full of 💩.
'He's not very bright, can't add up or think for himself, and does everything Scotty tells him to do without questioning it, but is Treasurer Josh Frydenberg up to the task of rebuilding the economy?' There, fixed it for you. You're welcome.
Absolutely not... Anyone you miscalculated $60billion dollars in our budget is a fraud, a legend in his own mind... LNP auspol news msm
.LiberalAus have delivered 6-7 years in a row of budget deficits. It's not getting better. libfail auspol recession
Oh gee.
No.
He’s a little bit slow
I kinda don’t see those 3 attributes clearly I must say.
I think he's going for leadership ... just a considered opinion ... call it social observation or qualitative research ... He and Tim Wilson. There's a lot going on in LNP world and if you read signs it's obvious.
Not hard working and NOT up to the task
No
When did Frydenberg-Morrison know about Michael Sukkar, the Assistant Treasurer, attempts to get rid of K Andrews' staffer & their branch & staff stacking? Who else knew? Was taxpayers money used for this scam? Who signed off on it? ANAO_Australia
'Hard working' and 'people pleaser'. Who writes this garbage.
When Reaganomics is his template the answer is self evident.
He's a useless twerp
No. Anything else I can help you with?
I know how I define him at present...below average , give or take 60 billion
libspill pending.....
people pleaser? oh purhleeese. 🤮
People-pleaser, my foot. I am a 'people' and I am not pleased. And he couldn't build lego. fraudenberg InnumerateTreasurer InsomniaCureInPerson DronerOn
No he isn’t... anyone who sprouts Reagan and Thatcher as their hero’s to economic success are failures.
No
A: No.
I have never heard anyone accuse Josh of being a 'people pleaser',
This is a man who Idolises Thatcher, Reagan & Austerity Australia is Fuc*ed
Short answer..
He's none of those things. That's just propaganda & lies. He is a corrupt fraud & a liar, just like all LNP. ICAC NOW & we'll find out who is wrong. auspol
The guys a wally, only wants to cut business taxes for supposed trikle down and is actively deregulating banks again.
Not an LNP voter but I think he will try to come out on top, a huge job ahead of him, all he needs is to stop making ethnic/religious jokes (read put-downs) in parliament, those went down like a lead balloon.
Inept or intent - which is worse⁉️
You missed the part where you said he was a crook.
The facts say no
This is the same bloke who wants to follow in the footsteps of Thatcher and Reagan? Sounds like he doesn't know much about his portfolio (for example, that 'trickle down economics' has been conclusively proven not to work).
In a word: NO.
$30 billion reasons why he can't.
Imagine what a government who was not beholden to it's lords and masters of mining and ideology could do to get the rebuild happening? Oh well.
Nothing that Josh Frydenberg has done in Parliament has convinced me that he's up to the enormous job he faces. He is an utter hack.
He doesn’t need to be up to the job of rebuilding because he is RETIRING this year 🙄
ABSOLUTELY EFFING NO, NO, NO AND NO AGAIN!
No way.
Is the Pope a Jew?
Any fool can be PM of this country, Morrison has proved that.
no.
Are u aware at if you google recession ,,, a recession lasts for 6 months ,, it’s then called a Depression we must be there very soon ,, but whos scared to use the word Great Depression mark 2
Kate’s and others in the group have 6000 staff are closing stores, was it 2500 going from qantas all announced yesterday, not one word from the Aust Treasurer or his boss morrison,, you think a leader be out immediately to talk about try harder re unemployment,,but no mute
No.
And he can't count
Yeah nah.
No
Give him a go.
I guess when your policy is to just ‘let it rip’ then you find time to be interviewed for puff pieces like this. Joshy reminds me of this bloke mistakingly taken for an IT expert by the BBC and interviewed on live TV - in over his head
Nothing he’s said or done since he became Treasurer indicates to me that he has any idea at all.
He's the most inept and least-qualified Treasurer since, umm, his predecessor.
Is this satire? He has actively destroyed the economy due to sheer incompetence...
Rebuilding? Decimating is a more appropriate description. He’ll probably be like Howard, a woeful, inept Treasurer who lucks into becoming PM in 20 years and wrecks the place even more.
Frydenberg’s an intellectual lightweight riven with, and driven by failed neoliberal ideology. Essentially, he’s a gullible sock puppet for Morrison and Howard - eager to prosecute their draconian, inequity-fueling agenda. Man who coveted the prize, but who has no vision auspol
Are you serious, he's destroyed it and that was before covid. I remember the days when you all screeched at 1/3 debt of this debt and every waking minute called for blood. Cute.
Fluff piece from the Liberal Party fundraisers at Costello Enterprises.
He is so hopeless. Not like it’s a secret. Did Joshie write this at the SMH fundraiser for the LNP and pass it along? Is Harris the Simon Benson of Fairfax? No wonder your paper is dying under Costello and club. More gutless journos who can’t fight for their principles.
Narrator: He isn’t.
No.
He’s just another fool who advocates spending and hand outs. There are too many of them in governments all around the world.
His disgusting performance at QT yesterday was shameful. The way he spoke about Dan Andrews was foul . Dan and the labor party are the elected government by Victorians . He needs to respect that . His name calling at QT was childish . Aust deserves better auspol
No
He’s been singularly terrible in this job. I know Peter Costello has a crush on him, but Peter wasn’t exactly a financial genius either. We’re still paying for the structural deficit he left the country.
He’s none of these things! Also a rubbish treasurer.
'A people pleaser' you have got to be kidding!
There’s no need to wax lyrical, the facts are, he makes big mistakes based on non-Treasury motives, refuses to repair, is unfair and unethical, and employs wastrels who are not capable of doing better than their past chaotic efforts
Josh is a poor treasurer.
Our economy was already heading south pre-Covid thanks to 7-8 years of this inept government,so nah!
auspol
He's a hack, and not a very smart hack: I spent a semester at uni with him a while back, and it was painfully obvious even back then.
Not if he can’t even focus on the job and proactively support his home state!
Guess been owned by the nine group is starting to affect you right
Hardworking?¿? Pleasssssse
A people pleaser? Hahahahah
No. He'll just be another cog in the long wheel of neo-liberal efforts to create an inequitable economy, except this cog really gets an opportunity to over or underfund aspects of our economy based on ideology as the covid crisis ensues.
If he's still relying on the ghosts of Ron Reagan and Marg Thatcher, not a chance. auspol
No. No he’s not.
No way, like a deer in the headlights when the going gets tough
No
Wearing a seatbelt would be a good start...🙄 auspol SusanSmithAus
NO!
Here we go...he still hasn't apologised.
Absolutely fucking not.
You forgot to mention that Josh is a racist.
No
Here's some self reflection for Josh.
No
Rebuilding! Surely a puff piece like this belongs in Womans Day. We have had 7 years of global growth. Over half the countries in the OECD reduced their debt over the last 7 years. We are neck and neck with Chile for top spt on the Debt growth ladder. ThisisNotJournalism
Absolutely no evidence to suggest that he is
No to all of the above - he's lazy, unpopular and an economic lightweight! His ongoing incompetence destroyed it, what makes SMH think that's going to change?
That's a strong 'no' - both to his ability to do anything useful past self-serving, and to 'hard-working'. Much less his ability to rebuild the economy. Outperforms when grifting, playing victim, or blaming Labor though.
Are there any journalists still there?
No the economy is Rooted.,
Past performance is no guarantee of future results, so maybe he has a chance of getting it right. Rebuilding society? Zero chance.
The world will need to learn how to live in smaller economies. The old world has gone...............
He is not these things. He is a bad treasurer and a Reagan and Thatcher apologist. Stop this blandishment and hold him to account.
No.
Stop trying to polish a turd, smh.
Dear if you really wanted to answer the question, 'Is Frydenberg up to the task of rebuilding the economy?', why not get someone who has a grasp of economics to answer it? You know, like Ross Gittens? This is article is hollow tosh.
Being ‘shamelessly ambitious’ is not a characteristic of good leadership
No. He isn't. Any high school class has people far smarter than him.
Not if it involves anything requiring creativity or courage.
Lol. He's woefully unqualified and an economic child. He doesn't understand half of what he says and as for progressive fiscal policy? A rock would have more imagination.
Comedy gold
Nope.
It will take the rest of us to rebuild the economy. Josh needs to just stay out of the way.
He was spouting Reganomics two weeks ago. Fuck no.
Nope. Not with inspirations like Thatcher & Reagan. He’s way out of his depth.
The liberals took over the world's number 1 performing developed economy & have trashed it every year for 6 years straight, till we r now outside the worlds top 30. Every metric on their watch has gotten worse & every part of the evonomy declined. can they fix it NOW?!? Hahaha
Such a people-pleaser!
Is anyone?
I do so like a rhetorical question.
You are doing a phenomenal job JoshFrydenberg, particularly due to Covid-19💪
Lol what a joke!!!!
First that article lauding Lachlan Murdoch, now this.......takeover on the cards?
No
Yes. Certainly as able as anyone would be given the circumstances.
Nope
Lol
no chance in hell, he is as corrupt as the PM
Destroy it then claim to rebuild it
No. auspol
Really? That's the title of your article for this incompetent clown.
Simple answer. No
Lol, hell no! Thanks for the giggles though. 😂
mygoodfriend5
Is anyone? Anywhere?
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