Anthony Albanese

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Anthony Norman Albanese (born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician who serves as the Opposition Leader and Leader of the Labor Party since 2019.

Since 1996, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grayndler.

Albanese served as Australia's 15th Deputy Prime Minister in 2013 and as a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2013. Albanese was born in Sydney and attended St Mary's Cathedral College before moving to the University of Sydney to study economics.

He joined the Labour Party as a student and spent time as a party leader and research officer before entering parliament.

Albanese was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, winning the Division of Grayndler in New South Wales.

He was first elected to the Shadow Cabinet in 2001 and went on to serve in a variety of capacities before becoming Head of Opposition Business in 2006. Albanese was named Leader of the House after Labor's victory in the 2007 election; he also served as Minister for Regional Development and Local Government, as well as Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure.

Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard's subsequent leadership contests from 2010 to 2013, Albanese was scathing about both's conduct, calling for unity.

Albanese was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party and sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia following the final leadership race between the two groups in June 2013. Albanese marched against Bill Shorten in the ensuing leadership election, the first to include party members as well as MPs, following Labour's loss in the 2013 election.

Despite the fact that Albanese gained a large majority of the members, Shorten took more power among Labor MPs; Shorten then named Albanese to his Shadow Cabinet.

Shorten resigned after Labour's third straight loss in the 2019 election.

Albanese was the only one to vote in the leadership race; he was later announced unopposed as the Leader of the Labour Party and Opposition Leader.

Early life

Albanese was born in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst on March 2nd, 1963. He is the son of Carlo Albanese and Maryanne Ellery. His mother was of Irish descent, and his Italian father was from Barletta, Apulia. The word Albanese in Italy refers to the Arb'resh people, ethnic Albanians indigenous to the area of southern Italy, where Albanese's father came from. His parents arrived in March 1962 aboard the Sitmar Line's TSS Fairsky, where his father worked as a steward, but they did not continue their friendship after leaving England, but in separate ways. Oddily, the Fairsky was also the ship on which Albanese's new parliamentary colleague Julia Gillard and her family immigrated from the United Kingdom in 1966.

Albanese was told that his father died in a car accident; he didn't know his father, who was in fact still alive, until 2009, and then the Australian Embassy in Italy and ambassador Amanda Vanstone. He later learned that he had two half-siblings. Albanese had no father on his birth certificate and thus meets the constitution's section 44 requirements.

George Ellery, Albanese's maternal grandfather, owned a printing shop on William Street in Darlinghurst. He provided printing to the ALP.

Albanese grew up with his mother and maternal grandparents in a Sydney City Council home in Camperdown's Inner West suburb, directly across the road from Camperdown Children's Hospital. His grandfather died in 1970, and James Williamson's mother married James Williamson the following year. He was given his stepfather's name, but the marriage lasted only ten weeks as Williamson proved to be an insecure alcoholic. Albanese's mother worked part-time as a cleaner but she suffered from persistent rheumatoid arthritis, with the family surviving on her disability pension and grandmother's age pension.

Albanese attended St Joseph's Primary School in Camperdown and later St Mary's Cathedral College. He worked with the Commonwealth Bank for two years before deciding on economics at the University of Sydney. He became involved in student politics and was elected to the Students' Representative Council. It was also here where he began his ascension as a key player in the ALP's Labour Left. Albanese led a faction within Young Labor that was aligned with the left-wing party's Left Party, which maintained "ties with broader left-wing organisations, such as the Communist Party of Australia, People for Nuclear Disarmament, and the African National Congress" during his tenure as a student leader.

In 2002, Albanese's mother died.

Albanese took on a role as a research officer to Tom Uren, the then Minister of Local Government and Administrative Services who became a mentor to him after completing his economics degree in 1984. When John Faulkner was elected to the Senate in 1989, the Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labour Party became vacant. The decision to replace him was close between the Labour Left's Hard Left and Soft Left parties, with Albanese being overwhelmingly populated with the support of the Hard Left, which will continue in this role for the next six years. In 1995, he left the position to serve as a senior advisor to New South Wales Premier Bob Carr.

Albanese's first overseas trip was in 1986, accompanying his friend Jeremy Fisher to Vanuatu. Albanese and his manager Tom Uren went on a trip to South-East Asia in 1987, which included: a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand; an Anzac Day dawn service with John Carrick; and a tour of Cambodia with Bill Hayden's daughter Ingrid. He travelled extensively in 1988, visiting Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Western Europe, on a Contiki tour, and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as a backpacker. Upon returning to Australia, he began dating Carmel Tebbutt, with whom he will spend holidays in Europe and South-East Asia, as well as a backpacking trip to India in 1991. Albanese participated in a tour of the United States organized by the State Department some years ago, with a strong emphasis on advocacy groups' interaction with the US Government.

Albanese bought a semi-detached two-bedroom house in Marrickville's Inner West Sydney suburb in 1990.

Personal life

Carmel Tebbutt, a prospective Deputy Premier of New South Wales, was married in 2000 by Albanese. They had been involved in Young Labor in the late 1980s and had one son together, and now have one son. In January 2019, the two people were divorced. Albanese was reported in June 2020 as part of Jodie Haydon's friendship. Albanese said they had dined a dinner party in Melbourne a year after his expulsion from Tebbutt. Albanese is the first divorcé to be named prime minister.

Albanese is described as a "half-Italian and half-Irish" and a "non-practising Catholic" by Albanese. He is also a music fan who attended a Gang of Youths concert at the Enmore Theatre and then acted as transport minister to save a Dolly Parton tour from bureaucratic red tape. The Pixies, the Pogues, the Smiths, the Triffids, the Triffids, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, Hunters & Collectors, and Joy Division co-hosted a pre-election special for music program Rage in 2013.

He was a lifelong supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club from 1999 to 2002 and was instrumental in the club's victory over the club's reelection of the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Sydney Morning Herald announced that Albanese had reacted an attempt to appoint former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard to a senior post in the NRL during October 2009. Albanese said he had phoned David Gallop, NRL's chief executive, and other league officials to warn them against the idea. He called on South officials to help prevent the proposal from gaining traction. He was made a life member of the club in 2013.

On 8 January 2021, Albanese was injured in a side collision while driving in Marrickville, New South Wales. He underwent medical and internal care at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and was reportedly "injured externally and internally, and had suffered a lot of shock in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy." The other driver was a 17-year-old boy who was fined for reckless driving. Albanese emergency personnel told Albanese that if the teen's car had reached just 30 centimeters on either side of where it was located, it would have certainly been killed. Albanese lost over 18 kilograms (39 pounds) in a hurry to be "match fit" for his election campaign shortly after this tragedy.

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Early political career

Albanese won preselection after Jeannette McHugh declared that she would not retest her seat as Grayndler in the 1996 election. Following the opening of the third runway at Sydney Airport, aircraft noise was a key political issue, and the newly formed No Aircraft Noise Party (NAN) gained a large number of voters in the local area at the 1995 New South Wales election. Malcolm Mackerras, a veteran political pundit, predicted that NAN would win the seat. However, NAN's candidate came third in third, receiving less than 14% of the vote. Albanese was elected with a narrow 16-point margin despite being outraged by a six-point swing against Labor.

He spoke about the construction of a third runway at Sydney Airport, aircraft noise, and the need to install a second airport to service Sydney, as well as his advocacy for improving public facilities in general, multiculturalism, native title, and childcare in his maiden speech to the House of Representatives. "I will be proud if I can be remembered as someone who will stand up for the interests of my people, for the working-class, and for our country's economic transition as a nation moves into the next century," he said.

In his first year in Parliament, he maintained the subject, advocating the Northern Territory's euthanasia law, the rights of the Indigenous people in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge controversy, and the right of same-sex couples to superannuation.

This latter issue became a cause to which he was particularly dedicated. He unsuccessfully moved a private member's bill in 1998 that would have guaranteed same-sex couples the same right to superannuation as de facto heterosexual couples. He attempted three more times without success over the next nine years until the Rudd Government's election in 2007 saw the law be passed. Albanese later shifted his attention to contesting for same-sex marriages.

Albanese was elected a parliament secretary in 1998, a role that supports ministers and shadow ministers, and it is often a stepping stone to a full ministerial position.

He was elected to the opposition Shadow Cabinet in 2001, focusing on ageing and senior issues. He was named Shadow Minister for Employment Services and Training in 2002, and then Shadow Minister for Environment and Heritage in 2004. It was in this former role that former Prime Minister John Howard and science minister Brendan Nelson first suggested that nuclear power for Australia be embraced. Albanese voted strongly against them, as well as elements from his own party, alleging that "Nuclear energy doesn't add up economically, environmentally, or socially," and "after more than 50 years of controversy, we still don't have a solution to nuclear proliferation or nuclear waste."

In 2005, he was given the additional responsibility of Shadow Minister for Water alongside his regular duties, and he was also appointed Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Commons. Albanese took over as Leader of Opposition Business in the House in December 2006, a senior tactical role on the floor of parliament, and was named Shadow Minister for Water and Infrastructure.

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