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  • Anthony Albanese, who has led Australia as prime minister since 2022, began life with a story that was only half true. In March 1962, an Australian woman named Maryanne Ellery met an Italian man named Carlo Albanese on a passenger ship sailing from Sydney to Southampton, England. Their son was conceived on that voyage. After the journey, the two did not stay in contact. The boy grew up hearing that his father had died in a car accident.

    How does a child raised on pensions in a council house come to run a country? What did he learn in the left wing of his party, and what did it cost him to wait for the top job? And what became of the man from the ship?

  • On the 2nd of March 1963, Anthony was born at St Margaret's Hospital in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst. His mother took Carlo's surname. She named her son after a cousin, Anthony Howett, who had died in a car accident four years earlier.

    The home he grew up in belonged to Sydney City Council, in the Inner West suburb of Camperdown, directly opposite the Camperdown Children's Hospital. He lived there with his mother and his maternal grandparents. His grandfather died in 1970. The next year his mother married James Williamson, and Anthony was given his stepfather's surname. The marriage lasted only ten weeks, because Williamson proved to be an abusive alcoholic. Money was tight. His mother cleaned part-time but lived with chronic rheumatoid arthritis, so the household relied on her disability pension and his grandmother's age pension.

    Albanese started at St Joseph's Primary School in Camperdown and moved on to St Mary's Cathedral College, selling newspapers part-time along the way. In 1978 he captained the St Mary's team on several episodes of the children's game show It's Academic. A year later, at the age of 15, he joined the Australian Labor Party through Young Labor. He then helped found a Labor Club at his high school.

    Albanese did not meet his father until 2009. That year he made contact with Carlo, who came from Barletta in Italy, and he visited him there a number of times. He also took his own family along. Carlo died in 2014, and Albanese then learned that he had two half-siblings. The family history later mattered in Canberra. During the parliamentary eligibility crisis of 2017, commentators noted that an Italian father would normally confer Italian citizenship. But Carlo was not recorded on the birth certificate, so Albanese satisfied section 44 of the Constitution.

  • After school, Albanese spent a short time at the Commonwealth Bank before enrolling in an economics degree at the University of Sydney. There he threw himself into student politics and won a place on the Students' Representative Council. In 1983 he ran for the council's presidency and lost to Belinda Neal. Along the way he became a key figure in the Labor Left, leading a Young Labor group aligned with the faction's Hard Left. Andrew Leigh, a fellow politician, said that wing had "links with broader left-wing groups" including the Communist Party of Australia, People for Nuclear Disarmament and the African National Congress.

    Albanese's first trip abroad came in 1986, when he went to Vanuatu with his friend Jeremy Fisher. The next year he joined his boss Tom Uren on a tour of South-East Asia. It took in a United Nations commission meeting in Bangkok, an Anzac Day dawn service at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, and a visit to Cambodia with Ingrid, the daughter of Bill Hayden. In 1988 he roamed much further, seeing Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana. He then covered Western Europe on a Contiki tour, and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as a backpacker.

    Back in Australia, he began dating Carmel Tebbutt. The pair holidayed in Europe and South-East Asia and backpacked through India in 1991. At some point in his twenties he also joined a United States State Department tour on how advocacy groups deal with the American government. In 1990 he bought a semi-detached two-bedroom house in Marrickville, in Sydney's Inner West.

    His working life moved in step with the travel. In 1984, with his degree finished, he became a research officer to Tom Uren, then the Minister for Local Government and Administrative Services. Uren became his mentor. In 1989 John Faulkner was elected to the Senate, leaving open the post of Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the party. The contest between the Hard Left and the Soft Left was close. Albanese won with Hard Left backing and held the job for six years. In 1995 he left to become a senior adviser to New South Wales Premier Bob Carr. A federal election was only a year away.

  • When Jeannette McHugh announced she would not defend her seat of Grayndler at the 1996 election, Albanese won preselection to replace her. The campaign was hard. Aircraft noise dominated local politics after the third runway opened at Sydney Airport. The new No Aircraft Noise party had polled strongly in the area at the 1995 New South Wales election, and the veteran commentator Malcolm Mackerras predicted it would win the seat. Its candidate instead finished third, with under 14% of the vote. Labor suffered a six-point swing, but Albanese still won by a comfortable 16 points.

    His maiden speech ranged across the runway, a second Sydney airport, public infrastructure, multiculturalism, native title and childcare. He asked to be remembered as someone who would "stand up for the interests of my electorate, for working-class people, for the labour movement".

    Superannuation for same-sex couples became his particular cause. In 1998 he moved a private member's bill giving same-sex couples the same superannuation rights as de facto heterosexual couples, and it failed. Three more attempts over the next nine years also failed. The election of the Rudd government in 2007 finally saw the change pass into law.

    That same year, 1998, he became a parliamentary secretary. In 2001 Simon Crean promoted him to the Shadow Cabinet with the ageing and seniors portfolio. In 2004 he took the environment and heritage portfolio, just as John Howard and Brendan Nelson began floating nuclear power for Australia. Albanese campaigned against them, and against some voices in his own party. He said that "Nuclear energy doesn't add up economically, environmentally or socially". After more than 50 years of debate, he argued, there was still no answer to proliferation or waste. In December 2006, when Kevin Rudd first became Labor leader, Albanese replaced Julia Gillard as Manager of Opposition Business in the House.

    On the 3rd of December 2007, Albanese was sworn in as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Regional Development and Local Government, and Leader of the House. His first move was to create Infrastructure Australia, an independent statutory body to advise the government on priorities. Armed with its advice and his own persuasion in Cabinet, he argued for a doubling of the roads budget and a tenfold increase in rail investment. Projects delivered through the process included Melbourne's Regional Rail Link, the Hunter Expressway and the Gold Coast light rail system G:link.

    The 2010 election produced the first hung parliament since the 1940s. As Leader of the House, Albanese helped secure the support of independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, and he managed legislation through that parliament. In 2011 he introduced an urban planning reform drawing on the work of Danish designer Jan Gehl. He also introduced a shipping reform that won approval from both a conservative shipowners' group and the radical Maritime Union of Australia. Then came a convoy of trucks from North Queensland, dubbed the "convoy of no confidence", which rolled into Canberra to protest fuel costs and carbon pricing. Albanese called the protesters "the convoy of no consequence". A week later, a rally for the truckies was held outside his electorate office.

    In February 2012, Kevin Rudd resigned as Minister for Foreign Affairs to challenge Julia Gillard for the leadership, and lost. Shortly before the ballot, Albanese publicly backed Rudd, saying he had always been unhappy with how Rudd was removed. He explained in tears that he had offered Gillard his resignation as Leader of the House, and she had refused it. Asked about his feelings, he said: "I like fighting Tories. That's what I do."

    In June 2013, Rudd beat Gillard in a final ballot. The same vote saw the caucus elect Albanese deputy leader, and the following day he was sworn in as deputy prime minister. Labor lost the 2013 election, and Warren Truss replaced him on the 18th of September. His term had run less than three months.

  • Within weeks of the 2013 defeat, Albanese announced he would run for Labor leader against Bill Shorten. The month-long contest was the first to combine a vote of MPs with a vote of rank-and-file members. Albanese won comfortably among the members. Shorten held a larger lead among MPs, and he took the leadership.

    In October 2013, Shorten made Albanese Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Shadow Minister for Tourism. He kept both roles throughout Shorten's time as leader. In September 2014 he added the cities portfolio. After Labor's narrow loss at the 2016 election, Sky News reported that Albanese was preparing to challenge. He ruled it out, and Shorten was re-elected unopposed.

    Shorten announced his resignation on the 18th of May 2019, after Labor's unexpected defeat in that year's election. Albanese declared his candidacy the next day. On the 21st of May, Chris Bowen entered the race, but the following day he withdrew, citing his lack of support among party members. With nobody else stepping forward, Albanese took the leadership unopposed on the 30th of May, with Richard Marles as his deputy. He unveiled his shadow ministry on the 1st of June.

    Opposition under Albanese began with some reversals. Labor backed the Morrison government's stage three tax cuts it had earlier opposed, and it took bipartisan positions during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the 4th of July 2020, Labor won the Eden-Monaro by-election despite a swing against it. On the 22nd of November 2021, Albanese accused Scott Morrison of lying to Parliament. A month later he unveiled the campaign slogan "A Better Future". In February 2022 he backed the government's religious discrimination bill. Labor then passed amendments protecting transgender school students after five Liberal MPs crossed the floor, and the government shelved the bill rather than accept them.

    The 2022 election was called on the 10th of April. On the first day of campaigning, Albanese could not name the official cash rate or the unemployment rate, and he was criticised. On the 20th of April he faced Morrison in a Sky News debate and won an audience vote. The next day he tested positive for COVID-19 and isolated at home in Sydney. He returned to campaigning the following week. On the 1st of May he hosted Labor's campaign launch in Perth, the first time a major party had launched in Western Australia. Labor promised cheaper medicine and childcare, more Australian manufacturing and a shared equity housing scheme for first-time buyers. He then faced Morrison in two more debates, hosted by Channel Nine and Channel Seven. Polling showed support for the two major parties at record lows.

    On the 21st of May 2022, Labor defeated the Liberal-National Coalition, and Albanese became the 31st prime minister of Australia. Labor's primary vote fell, but it gained a 3.66-point two-party-preferred swing. The Coalition also lost several seats to so-called teal independents. Two days later, Albanese was sworn in with Richard Marles, Jim Chalmers, Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher as an interim five-person ministry. He was the first Italian-Australian prime minister in the country's history. On the 30th of May, projections showed Labor had won at least 76 seats, its first outright majority since 2007.

  • On the 16th of June 2022, Albanese submitted a new national contribution to the United Nations, committing Australia to a 43% cut in carbon emissions. The previous government's target had been 26 to 28%. His government later wrote the new figure into law.

    His first budget arrived on the 25th of October 2022, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The government billed it as Australia's first well-being budget, counting quality of life as well as money. Monthly inflation peaked at 8.4% in December 2022. The Reserve Bank raised interest rates twelve times, reaching 4.35% by November 2023, the highest since 2011. On the 9th of December 2022, Albanese convened the National Cabinet and announced a coordinated plan for temporary caps on gas and coal prices. Six days later he recalled Parliament to pass a 12-month cap on gas prices, aimed at limiting electricity price rises.

    In February 2023, the government abolished temporary protection visas, allowing up to 19,000 asylum seekers to stay permanently. In March 2023, Parliament passed the National Reconstruction Fund, a $15 billion fund for the manufacturing sector. The National Anti-Corruption Commission began operating on the 1st of June 2023, fulfilling a campaign pledge. The 2023 budget delivered a surplus of $22.1 billion, equal to 0.9% of GDP. It was the first surplus in 15 years and the largest ever recorded. The 2024 budget posted another, of $9.3 billion.

    Housing was the other great pressure. In August 2023, Albanese reached an agreement with the National Cabinet to build 1.2 million houses over five years. On the 13th of September 2023, the government passed the Housing Australia Future Fund, a $10 billion fund meant to build 30,000 social and affordable homes over five years. In November 2024 it legislated a help-to-buy shared equity scheme for up to 40,000 first-time buyers. In February 2025 it placed a two-year ban on non-citizens buying existing houses.

    The 14th of October 2023 brought the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Labor had campaigned on the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including changing the Constitution to recognise Aboriginal Australians. Voters rejected the change. It passed in no state, and only the Australian Capital Territory voted in favour.

    In January 2024, the government reshaped the stage three tax cuts so that people earning under $150,000 received a larger cut. Critics, including the Opposition and conservative media, called it a broken pre-election promise, since Albanese had repeatedly said he would not change them. The public liked the result, and the Senate passed the new version on the 27th of February 2024. In April 2024 he announced Future Made in Australia, a policy to promote local manufacturing in sustainable energy. The third budget set aside $22.7 billion over a decade for green hydrogen, solar panel manufacturing and critical minerals mining. It included a $1 billion Solar Sunshot program and a $566 million geomapping initiative called Resourcing Australia's Prosperity.

    In June 2024, Albanese pledged to force social media companies to stop users under 16 from creating accounts. Industry groups and companies such as Meta objected. The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 passed anyway, making Australia the first country to legislate a minimum age for social media use. Albanese has called social media a "scourge". A separate attempt to compel platforms to police misinformation was abandoned for lack of support in Parliament.

    Two more decisions drew scrutiny in late 2024. On the 25th of September, the government told Treasury to examine negative gearing, a divisive issue Labor had taken to the 2019 election and lost on. Albanese had earlier promised to leave it alone, and after intense speculation he ruled out changes the next day. In October, the Administrative Review Tribunal replaced the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said the old body had been "compromised" by political appointees.

    On the 28th of March 2025, Albanese called an election for the 3rd of May. The 2025 budget had promised $17 billion in tax cuts, lowering the bottom bracket from 16% to 15% in 2026 and 14% in 2027, and it ran a $42.1 billion deficit. The first week of campaigning was dominated by tariffs imposed on Australia by Donald Trump, and Albanese urged Australians to buy local. He narrowly won a Sky News debate against Peter Dutton on the 8th of April, judged by 100 undecided voters. On the 13th of April, Labor launched its campaign with a plan for first-home buyers to buy with a five percent deposit and for 100,000 homes reserved for them.

    The result was a landslide. Albanese defied a global anti-incumbency surge and became the first prime minister since John Howard in 2004 to win re-election. Labor gained 17 seats to hold 94, matching the most ever held by a party, set by Howard's Coalition in 1996. Labor also kept every seat it had held, the first government to do so since Harold Holt's in 1966. Several media outlets credited anti-Trump sentiment. The second ministry was sworn in on the 13th of May 2025.

    On the 31st of July 2025, legislation passed to cut tertiary education loans by 20%, the pledge Albanese had named as his first act of the new term. On the 18th of September he set Australia's 2035 emissions target at a range of 62 to 70%. On the 1st of October, the five percent deposit scheme took effect, though economists and real estate figures warned it would likely push prices higher. In November 2025, the government passed an overhaul of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and created the National Environmental Protection Agency. That month it also made the Centre for Disease Control permanent, after forming it as an interim body in January 2024. Following the Bondi Beach shooting, new hate speech and gun laws came in January 2026. On the 9th of January 2026, Albanese announced a Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

  • On the 23rd of May 2022, within days of being sworn in, Albanese flew to Tokyo for a Quad meeting with Joe Biden, Narendra Modi and Fumio Kishida. He told them his government would pursue stronger action on emissions. On the 5th of June he and Penny Wong visited Indonesian president Joko Widodo in Jakarta. Later that month he attended the NATO summit in Madrid to discuss security threats in the Pacific.

    On the 30th of June 2022, Albanese met Emmanuel Macron in Paris to reset a relationship damaged when the previous government cancelled a submarine deal. The next day he travelled to Ukraine to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the first Australian prime minister to make a diplomatic visit there. He pledged a further $100 million in aid.

    In November 2022, a bilateral meeting with Xi Jinping ended the longest diplomatic freeze between Australia and China in 50 years. By the 14th of March 2023, China had reportedly lifted all restrictions on Australian coal. It agreed to lift its ban on barley in April and on timber in May. Between the 4th and the 7th of November 2023, Albanese visited Shanghai and Beijing, the first Australian prime minister to travel to China in seven years. The trip fell on the 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam's pioneering visit. He gave a speech at the China International Import Expo and met Premier Li Qiang and Xi. In July 2025 he made a six-day visit to Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu. A trip to the Great Wall and a panda breeding centre drew criticism from the Coalition. Albanese said the visits showed respect, while critics said he skipped human rights and focused only on trade.

    On the 13th of March 2023, Albanese travelled to San Diego to officially commence the AUKUS security pact with Joe Biden and British prime minister Rishi Sunak. His predecessor had signed the deal. Under it, Australia will buy $368 billion of defence materiel, including nuclear-powered submarines, to counter China's dominance in the Indo-Pacific. China received the deal badly. So did former prime minister Paul Keating, who called it the "worst deal in all history".

    That same month, Albanese was in New Delhi for the Australia-India Annual Leaders' Summit, leading a trade delegation. At a cricket event in Ahmedabad with Narendra Modi, he handed Australian captain Steve Smith his test cap. On the 8th of September 2023 he visited Manila, the first bilateral visit to the Philippines by an Australian prime minister in two decades. With President Bongbong Marcos he lifted the relationship to a strategic partnership. In August 2025, Australian and Philippine forces held an exercise in Palawan involving over 3,600 personnel. A week after the China trip in 2023, he signed the Falepili Union treaty with Tuvalu. Legal scholar Jane McAdam called it "groundbreaking". Australia agreed to fund climate adaptation and to resettle 280 Tuvaluans a year.

    On Julian Assange, Albanese said he would not "publicly intervene" to stop the extradition to the United States. His government instead pursued what was dubbed "quiet diplomacy", raising the case directly with Biden. Assange was released after a plea deal in June 2024. His legal adviser, barrister Greg Barns, called the government's role "instrumental".

    In March 2024, the firm Birchgrove Legal referred Albanese to the International Criminal Court as an accessory to genocide over the government's conduct in the Gaza war. The document was signed by over 100 lawyers and barristers, and he was the first Western leader referred in that context. In April 2024, Albanese told Benjamin Netanyahu that Australians were outraged by the death of an Australian citizen in an Israeli attack on aid workers. In May 2025, he called Israel's actions "completely unacceptable" and an "outrage". He still opposed sanctions, saying he was focused on peace and security for both Israelis and Palestinians rather than "soundbites". On the 11th of August 2025 he declared that Australia would formally recognise Palestine at the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.

    At the G7 summit in June 2025, a planned meeting with Donald Trump was cancelled when Trump left early over the Iran-Israel war. Albanese voiced support for American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, while stressing that the action was unilateral. That month he gave a speech saying Australia should pursue its own interests and not be "shackled to the past". Many commentators read it as distancing Australia from American foreign policy. His first meeting with Trump took place at the White House on the 20th of October 2025. There he signed a deal to export critical minerals to the United States, widely seen as a move against China's dominance of that market. On the 28th of February 2026, he announced with Penny Wong and Richard Marles that Australia would support American and Israeli strikes against Iran.

  • In May 2025, Albanese described his ideology as "progressive patriotism". He calls his views progressive and is aligned with the Labor Left, yet journalists and analysts noted a shift toward the centre during the 2022 campaign and after he took office.

    He is a republican. In a debate marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, he told Parliament: "You can be a republican, as I am, and still have the deepest respect for the Queen." He wanted constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians to come before any republic referendum. After meeting King Charles III in September 2025, he ruled out holding a republic referendum during his term.

    On climate, Albanese voted with Labor for the Clean Energy Act 2011, which created a carbon pricing scheme. When the Abbott government abolished the scheme in July 2014, he said pricing was no longer needed because "the circumstances have changed". On winning in 2022, he promised to "end the climate wars". Writing in the Australian Financial Review, James Curran traced a shift in his foreign views, from an "idealistic left-wing critic of globalisation" to "a true believer in the American alliance". In February 2003, he had been staunchly opposed to the invasion of Iraq.

    Albanese has marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras regularly since 1983. He voted for the unsuccessful 2012 same-sex marriage bill and opposed a plebiscite, saying "we shouldn't be having a public vote where we get to judge other families". In 2017 he voted for the act that legalised same-sex marriage. In 1997 he told Parliament that "drug use by individuals is a health issue, not a criminal issue". In February 2022 he declined to back decriminalising hard drugs. In July 2015 he said he could not himself turn a boat of families and children around. During the 2022 campaign he made clear boat turnbacks would remain policy, and critics accused him of flip-flopping.

    In 2000, Albanese married Carmel Tebbutt, who later became Deputy Premier of New South Wales. They have one son and separated in January 2019. In June 2020, it was reported that he was seeing Jodie Haydon, whom he met at a dinner event in Melbourne a year after the separation. He is the first divorcee to become prime minister. In February 2024, he announced their engagement after proposing at The Lodge in Canberra. On the 29th of November 2025, they married in a private ceremony at The Lodge, making him the first Australian prime minister to be engaged or wed in office.

    He describes himself as "half-Italian and half-Irish" and a "non-practising Catholic". Music is a constant. Not long after becoming prime minister, he attended a Gang of Youths concert at the Enmore Theatre. As transport minister, he cut through red tape to save a Dolly Parton tour. In 2013, he co-hosted a pre-election special of the music program Rage, choosing songs by the Pixies, the Pogues, the Smiths, the Triffids, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, Hunters & Collectors and Joy Division. On the 30th of November 2023, he posted his Spotify Wrapped, topped by Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift.

    Sport runs deep too. A lifelong supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Albanese sat on the club's board from 1999 to 2002 and helped the fight to get it readmitted to the National Rugby League. In 2013 he became a life member. In October 2009, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that he had phoned NRL chief executive David Gallop to oppose appointing John Howard to a senior league role. He also backs the Hawthorn Football Club and attended the 1991 AFL Grand Final, when Hawthorn won its ninth premiership.

    On the 8th of January 2021, Albanese was injured in a side collision while driving in Marrickville. He was treated at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The other driver, aged 17, was charged with negligent driving. Emergency workers told him that if the car had hit just 30 cm either side, he would almost certainly have been killed. Soon afterward he lost over 18 kg by cutting out carbohydrates and reducing alcohol, to be "match fit" for his campaign. Four years later he revealed that he still suffers spinal issues and struggles to sit in a car on long trips. On the 28th of January 2026, Timor-Leste's president, José Ramos-Horta, awarded him the Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-Leste.

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Common questions

Who is Anthony Albanese?

Anthony Albanese is the 31st prime minister of Australia. He has led the Labor Party since 2019 and has represented the New South Wales seat of Grayndler since 1996.

When did Albanese meet his father?

He did not meet his father, Carlo Albanese, until 2009. Carlo came from Barletta in Italy and died in 2014, after which Albanese learned he had two half-siblings.

What happened in the 2023 Indigenous Voice referendum?

Voters rejected the proposal on the 14th of October 2023. It passed in no state, and only the Australian Capital Territory voted in favour.

How did Albanese become Labor leader in 2019?

After Bill Shorten resigned following the 2019 defeat, Albanese announced his candidacy. Chris Bowen entered and then withdrew, so Albanese took the leadership unopposed on the 30th of May 2019.

What did the 2025 election result mean for Labor?

Labor won a landslide, gaining 17 seats to hold 94 in the House of Representatives. It also kept every seat it held, the first government to do so since 1966.

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  71. 279This is what Anthony Albanese will prioritise now he's back in officeRashida Yosufzai — Special Broadcasting Service — 5 May 2025
  72. 280Labor has passed its student debt cuts. When will you see the changes?Ewa Staszewska — Special Broadcasting Service — 31 July 2025
  73. 281The government is making major changes to universities. Here's what to expectConor Duffy — Australian Broadcasting Corporation — 30 June 2026
  74. 284NewsAustralia vows to cut emissions 62 to 70 per cent by 2035Jake Evans — 18 September 2025
  75. 286How Australia is navigating an oil market in crisisAustralian Broadcasting Corporation — 11 April 2026
  76. 287Albanese poised to kill off move to increase taxes on gas giantsJane Norman — Australian Broadcasting Corporation — 23 April 2026
  77. 292Anthony Albanese formally invites Pope Leo XIV to Australia in Vatican meetingStephen Dziedzic — Australian Broadcasting Corporation — 19 May 2025
  78. 293Albanese says Israel's 'excuses' for withholding Gaza aid are not credibleJake Evans — Australian Broadcasting Corporation — 26 May 2025
  79. 296Donald Trump left G7 before one-on-one with Anthony AlbaneseMaani Truu — Australian Broadcasting Corporation — 17 June 2025
  80. 307NewsLuxon, Albanese make the most of Q'townTracy Roxburgh — 11 August 2025
  81. 318Australia-European Union Free Trade AgreementDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade — Australian Government — 24 March 2026
  82. 324Anthony Albanese's historic battle cry in war on family wealthSharri Markson — News Corp Australia — 10 February 2022
  83. 325Labor's on a roll. No wonder the Libs are flat outPeter Hartcher — 4 March 2023
  84. 329Queen Elizabeth II: Platinum JubileeHansard — 8 February 2022
  85. 335NewsAlbanese says carbon to boost productivityNicole Stevens — 9 March 2011
  86. 336Carbon tax passes SenateJeremy Thompson — 8 November 2011
  87. 338NewsCarbon tax is gone: Repeal bills pass the SenateLisa Cox — 17 July 2014
  88. 340Carbon price no longer needed: AlbaneseKatie Burgess — 24 June 2020
  89. 347NewsMinisterial Statements: Iraq9 February 2003
  90. 353Anthony Albanese and his biographerKaren Middleton — 3 September 2016
  91. 361Netanyahu claims Melbourne synagogue attack linked to Albanese government's 'anti-Israel position'Daisy Dumas — Australian Associated Press — 7 December 2024
  92. 363Albanese, Dutton clash on NSW abortion lawsOlivia Caisley — 2 August 2019
  93. 368NewsProtesters removed as Mardi Gras sends political messagesAndrew Taylor — 29 February 2020
  94. 370House of Representatives Voting and ProceedingsCommonwealth of Australia — 19 September 2012
  95. 375Albo at odds with MP over drugsJess Malcolm — 23 February 2022
  96. 380NewsAlbanese tests positive to COVID, election campaign goes virtualDavid Crowe et al. — 21 April 2022
  97. 384NewsThe one that got awayAndrew Clennell — 24 May 2008
  98. 387Federal MP Anthony Albanese announces split with wife Carmel Tebbutt AlbaneseStephanie Bedo — News.com.au — 7 January 2019
  99. 388NewsPicking up the piecesJames Button — 1 November 2019
  100. 389NewsAnthony Albanese announces split from wife Carmel TebbuttShane Wright — 7 January 2019
  101. 392Anthony Albanese opens up about marriage breakdown, new girlfriendCourtney Gould — news.com.au — 24 February 2022
  102. 393How Jodie Haydon met Anthony AlbaneseEllen Ransley — 23 May 2022
  103. 394Anthony Albanese: Australian PM announces engagement to Jodie HaydonTiffanie Turnbull — BBC News — 15 February 2024
  104. 397NewsCatholics divided in the HouseMaley, Jacqueline — 26 December 2009
  105. 400NewsDeputy PM Anthony Albanese to host Rage ... Wait, what?Smith, Sarah — 19 August 2012
  106. 404Three Life Members inducted at Member Co AGMMonahan, Jeremy — South Sydney Rabbitohs — 3 March 2013
  107. 405NewsNew push to sign up HowardLane, Daniel — 11 July 2010
  108. 406Albanese's bunny boiloverAlice Workman — News Corp — 26 September 2019
  109. 408Work begins on Hawthorn's new $100 million homeAustralian Football League — 9 February 2024
  110. 414Anthony Albanese Sells Dulwich Hill Investment HomeBella Westaway — 1 December 2024
  111. 418Albanese rents out his Copacabana investment propertyOlivia Ireland — 4 February 2025
  112. 420Australian PM Albanese receives the Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-LesteCacmilio De Sousa — Tatoli Agência Noticiosa de Timor-Leste — 28 January 2026
  113. 421NewsAlbanese receives Fiji's highest honourKaneta Naimatau — 7 July 2026
  114. 4222026 Atlantic Council Global Citizen AwardsAtlantic Council — 23 September 2026
  115. 423BookAlbanese: Telling It StraightKaren Middleton — Random House Australia — 2016
  116. 424BookBulldozed: Scott Morrison's fall and Anthony Albanese's riseNiki Savva — Scribe — 2022

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