Anthony Norman Albanese
(
AL
-b?-neez
;
[1]
born 2 March 1963) also known by his nickname
Albo
is an
Italian-Australian
politician who is the 31st and current
Prime Minister of Australia
, taking the position in 2022. He has been
Member of Parliament
for
Grayndler
since 1996. Since May 2019, Albanese has been the 21st
Leader of the Australian Labor Party
.
Albanese was the 15th
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
and the 25th
Deputy Leader of the Labor Party
in 2013 under
Kevin Rudd
. He was a critic of Kevin Rudd and
Julia Gillard
leadership conflicts from 2010 to 2013 where Albanese sided with Rudd.
[2]
Albanese has described his political views as
progressive
.
[3]
After Labor lost the
2013 election
, Albanese ran against
Bill Shorten
in the
leadership election
. He lost to Shorten. After Labor was defeated in the
2019 election
, he was the first to become a candidate for the leadership after Shorten resigned.
[4]
He was soon elected unopposed as leader on 30 May 2019 and later became the 34th
Opposition Leader
.
[5]
In May 2022, the Labor Party won the most seats in the
2022 federal election
with Albanese becoming the new prime minister.
Albanese was born on 2 March 1963 in the
Sydney
suburb of
Darlinghurst
.
[6]
He is the son of Carlo Albanese and Maryanne Ellery.
[7]
[8]
[9]
Growing up, Albanese was told that his father had died in a car accident; he did not meet his father, who was in fact still alive, until 2009. He later discovered that he had two half-siblings.
[8]
Albanese graduated with a bachelor of economics from the
University of Sydney
where he was president of the communist party
[
source?
]
. After, Albanese became a research officer to Minister
Tom Uren
.
[10]
In 1995, became a senior adviser to
New South Wales Premier
Bob Carr
.
[6]
In June 2013, when
Kevin Rudd
beat
Julia Gillard
in a final
leadership election
.
[11]
[12]
That same ballot saw Albanese elected by the caucus as
Deputy Leader of the Labor Party
, and the next day Albanese was sworn in as
Deputy Prime Minister
.
[13]
He held this role until Labor's defeat at the
2013 election
, and was replaced by
Warren Truss
on 18 September.
[14]
[15]
When
Bill Shorten
announced his resignation as Leader of the Labor Party on 18 May 2019, after Labor's unexpected loss in the
2019 election
, Albanese announced his candidacy of Labor Party leader.
[16]
[17]
Albanese became party leader on 30 May since no one else ran against him, with
Richard Marles
as his deputy.
[18]
Aged 56 when he took office, he is the oldest first-time Opposition Leader in 59 years.
[19]
Albanese led the Labor Party to victory at the
2022 federal election
on 21 May, becoming prime minister?designate shortly afterwards.
[20]
[21]
Albanese is the first
Italian-Australian
prime minister in the country's history.
[22]
He is the fourth Labor leader to be appointed prime minister, directly after being the opposition leader, since
World War II
.
[23]
He was sworn-in as prime minister on 23 May 2022.
[24]
On 30 June 2022, Albanese met with French president
Emmanuel Macron
in Paris to "reset" relations between
France
and Australia.
[25]
[26]
The next day, Albanese travelled to
Ukraine
to meet with president
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
, making him the first Australian prime minister to make a diplomatic visit to Ukraine.
[27]
On 3 April 2024, Albanese announced that King
Charles III
had approved the appointment of
Sam Mostyn
as the next
Governor-General of Australia
.
[28]
[29]
[30]
In 2000, Albanese married
Carmel Tebbutt
, a future
Deputy Premier of New South Wales
.
[31]
They have one son.
[32]
Albanese and Tebbutt separated in January 2019.
[33]
In June 2020, it was reported that Albanese was in a new relationship,
[34]
with Jodie Haydon.
[35]
While some prime ministers divorced after leaving office, Albanese is the first divorced person to become prime minister.
[36]
Albanese describes himself as "half-Italian and half-Irish".
[37]
"Albo" is a well known nickname for Albanese used by his supporters and media.
[38]
Albanese was injured in a car crash while driving in
Marrickville, New South Wales
, on 8 January 2021 with serious injuries. The other driver was a 17-year-old who received a ticket for negligent driving.
[39]
Emergency workers told Albanese that if the teen's car had hit just 30 centimetres either side of where it did, he would have been killed.
[40]
In April 2022, Albanese tested positive for
COVID-19
.
[41]
- ↑
The pronunciation Albanese himself uses is
, as used for instance during his
October 1996 speech
before parliament on the
Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996
. An alternative sometimes used is
, but
has been used since
his childhood
.
Archived
20 July 2013 at the
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.
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.
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.
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8.0
8.1
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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- ↑
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.
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- ↑
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- ↑
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.
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.
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.
- ↑
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.
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.