Anthony Albanese First Wife
Albanese married Carmel Tebbutt, his first wife and the future Deputy Premier of New South Wales, in the year 2000. They met in the late 1980s in Young Labor and have one son together. Albanese and Tebbutt split up in January of this year.
Anthony Albanese New Partner
Albanese was said to be in a new relationship with alleged partner Jodie Haydon in June 2020. Albanese stated they met a year after his divorce from Tebbutt at a dinner event in Melbourne.
Anthony Albanese Ethnicity and Religion
Albanese identifies as “half-Italian, half-Irish,” as well as a “non-practicing Catholic.”
Anthony Albanese (born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician who has led the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as Leader of the Opposition since 2019. Since 1996, he has served as a member of parliament (MP) for the Grayndler division. Albanese served as Australia’s deputy prime minister in the second Rudd administration in 2013 and as a cabinet minister in the Rudd and Gillard administrations from 2007 to 2013.
Albanese was born in Sydney and attended St Mary’s Cathedral College before going on to study economics at the University of Sydney. He joined the Labor Party as a student and worked as a party official and research officer before joining parliament. Albanese was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, winning the New South Wales seat of Grayndler.
In 2001, he was first appointed to the Shadow Cabinet, where he served in a variety of capacities before becoming Manager of Opposition Business in 2006.
Albanese was named Leader of the House after Labor won the 2007 election, as well as Minister for Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Albanese was strongly critical of both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s behaviour throughout the ensuing leadership difficulties from 2010 and 2013, asking for unity.
Albanese was elected Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia the next day after the final leadership ballot between the two in June 2013.
Following Labor’s election loss in 2013, Albanese ran against Bill Shorten in the subsequent leadership contest, which was the first to include both party members and MPs. Although Albanese received a strong majority of the vote, Shorten received a larger majority of Labor MPs; Shorten later named Albanese to his Shadow Cabinet.
Shorten resigned after Labor’s third consecutive election loss in 2019. Albanese was the only person nominated in a leadership election, and he was elected Leader of the Labor Party without opposition, becoming Leader of the Opposition.
