- Born
- Birth nameJoseph Benedict Hockey
- Nicknames
- Smokin' Joe
- The Bodyguard
- Height5′ 11½″ (1.82 m)
- Joe Hockey was born on August 2, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He has been married to Melissa Babbage since December 18, 1993. They have three children.
- SpouseMelissa Babbage(December 18, 1993 - present) (3 children)
- Treasurer of Australia (18 September 2013 - 21 September 2015), Ambassador of Australia to the United States (29 January 2016 - 30 January 2020).
- Joe Hockey and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have both called for parliament to formally recognise the Armenian Genocide. More than 20 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Canda and Russia, and two Australian states - NSW and South Australia - recognise the mass murder of Christians, including Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923 as genocide, but both major Australian political parties have so far stopped short of doing so at a federal level, most likely because of diplomatic pressure from Turkey [2017].
- Ambassador of Australia to the United States [2017].
- He is of Armenian descent. Hockey was born in North Sydney to an Armenian father, Richard (born in Bethlehem, Mandatory Palestine), and an Australian mother, Beverley. He has three elder siblings. His father's original surname, Hokeidonian, was anglicised to "Hockey" in 1948 after arriving in Australia.
- I want my kids to be able to say to their kids, 'Your grandfather made Australia a better place.' [2009]
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