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HOCKEY'S MONIKER GETS NOD FROM CANADIAN PM
Mosman Daily http://www.pressreader.com/australia/mosman-daily
June 19, 2014 Thursday
TREASURER Joe Hockey got a special mention from the Canadian Prime
Minister at a press conference and it wasn't just for his economic
policies.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott was in Ottawa recently for talks with his
counterpart Stephen Harper on his international tour. And the Canadian
leader took the opportunity to point out Hockey's "great name".
"Are you sure he isn't Canadian with a name like that?," he asked Mr
Abbott. The North Sydney MP hit Twitter to set the record straight.
"Given my heritage I couldn't get away with claiming to be from
Canada!," he wrote.
Mr Hockey's father Richard migrated to Australia from Bethlehem in
1948 and anglicised the Armenian family name Hokeidonian. His Armenian
grandfather Joseph was sent by the Catholic Church in Jerusalem to be
a spy in -Palestine.Mr Hockey's mother Beverley was born in Chatswood
and was working as a model when she met her husband.
From: A. Papazian
Mosman Daily http://www.pressreader.com/australia/mosman-daily
June 19, 2014 Thursday
TREASURER Joe Hockey got a special mention from the Canadian Prime
Minister at a press conference and it wasn't just for his economic
policies.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott was in Ottawa recently for talks with his
counterpart Stephen Harper on his international tour. And the Canadian
leader took the opportunity to point out Hockey's "great name".
"Are you sure he isn't Canadian with a name like that?," he asked Mr
Abbott. The North Sydney MP hit Twitter to set the record straight.
"Given my heritage I couldn't get away with claiming to be from
Canada!," he wrote.
Mr Hockey's father Richard migrated to Australia from Bethlehem in
1948 and anglicised the Armenian family name Hokeidonian. His Armenian
grandfather Joseph was sent by the Catholic Church in Jerusalem to be
a spy in -Palestine.Mr Hockey's mother Beverley was born in Chatswood
and was working as a model when she met her husband.
From: A. Papazian