14 Facts About Ed Husic

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Ed Husic is the first Muslim to be elected to federal parliament, as well as the first Muslim to be made a Minister in the Australian Government.

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Ed Husic was born in Sydney, the son of Bosnian Muslim immigrants who came to Australia in the late 1960s.

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Ed Husic says that while growing up, his household practised Islam but celebrated Christmas and Easter.

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Ed Husic has said he spoke Bosnian at home, picking it up during his primary school years.

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Ed Husic was raised in Western Sydney and was educated at Blacktown South Public School, Mitchell High School and the University of Western Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications.

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Ed Husic was first elected as a branch organiser in 1997.

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Ed Husic was the national president of the CEPU before being elected to federal parliament.

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8.

Ed Husic unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Greenway at the 2004 federal election, representing the Labor Party.

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When Kevin Rudd announced the Second Rudd Ministry in 2013, Ed Husic became the first Muslim sworn onto the Australian federal government frontbench, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband, taking his oath on the Quran.

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Ed Husic supported ASIO substituting both expressions with other terminology.

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Ed Husic said that he is against violent acts, and Muslims like him over the years have been often confronted by conservatives to denounce Islamist extremism.

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Ed Husic served as the Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy and the Shadow Minister for Human Services until 2019, when he resigned to make way for Kristina Keneally.

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Ed Husic was added back to the shadow cabinet when Joel Fitzgibbon resigned as Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources, with Ed Husic taking over the portfolio.

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Ed Husic was the primary advocate for a parliamentary investigation into the "Australia Tax," the significant price difference for certain IT products compared to overseas markets.