Josh Burns on how you create change

Josh Burns is a bit of a rising star in the Australian Labor Party. 

The Member for Macnamara is an increasing presence in the party - often unafraid to front a microphone or camera. 

He’s seen as part of the new generation of Labor, but is he pushing for change in the background - or is he biting his tongue and working within the system? 

And while Josh Burns says he never wanted to become known as “the Jewish MP”, it has become a defining feature of his political identity - so how does that sit with him?

In this special Politics Now: The Interview summer series, recorded in the final parliamentary sitting week of 2025, Patricia Karvelas sits down with movers and shakers across the Australian political sphere to unpack the person behind the politics.

In this episode Patricia Karvelas is joined by Josh Burns to unpack identity, pathways for making change, and his relationship to fatherhood.

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