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In his first speech, he said: “It says a great thing about our nation that the son of a parent who grew up in a council house in Sydney could be deputy prime minister.”Īfter the 2013 election loss he ran for the leadership but lost to Bill Shorten. In 2013, he was elected by the Labor caucus as deputy prime minister in the new Rudd Labor Government. I disagree with the decision that Anthony Albanese has made but the one thing I know about Albo is following Monday’s ballot he’ll be back doing what he does, fighting Tories in the parliament and beyond.”Īnthony Albanese with former Labor leader Bill Shorten in 2013.

“He is someone who always want to put the best interests of the Labor Party first and get about fighting Tories, to use his terminology from today. Ms Gillard said this: “Albo is a great Labor man with a great Labor heart … I refused to accept his resignation … I can’t imagine a government I lead without Anthony Albanese in there beside me. “She thanked me for the way that I had conducted myself and expressed confidence that I should remain Leader of the House due to the loyalty and tenacity that I had shown in that position.”

“I went through the reasons why, and given my position as Leader of the House I also offered my resignation to her,” he said. He revealed he offered his resignation to Ms Gillard but she declined to accept it. Pleading for an end to Labor’s infighting, he said he wanted to get back to “fighting Tories … that’s what I do”.Īnthony Albanese pictured with Julia Gillard at Parliament House in Canberra in 2010. He said at the time that his decision stemmed from his opposition to the removal of Mr Rudd by the caucus in 2010. I informed the Prime Minister that I would be voting for Kevin Rudd in Monday’s ballot,’’ he said.Įven though he had worked closely and successfully with Ms Gillard when she was PM his decision did not surprise his colleagues. “I rang the Prime Minister this morning and had a lengthy conversation with her. In 2012, when Mr Rudd was challenged for the leadership again, Mr Albanese held an emotional press conference declaring his support. Having said that, he had a good relationship with Ms Gillard as prime minister. Mr Albanese was a supporter of Kevin Rudd’s and did not support Julia Gillard’s 2010 leadership coup. But his entire career since leaving university has been working for the Labor Party.Īnthony Albanese and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during Question Time in Canberra in 2013. While at university he worked at a bank as a teller. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics. The Labor leader was the first person in his family to finish school and attend university. “He was very welcoming, and he, of course, remembered my mother he had the same photo that I had.” “They were very surprised that a deputy Prime Minister from the other side of the world was his son,” he said. Mr Albanese first met his dad when he was 46, during an official visit to Italy in 2009. We then met, and I discovered I had a brother, a sister, nieces and nephews.”

It was one of the triggers for his search for his biological father Carlos. “And there was a particular day when we were at her grave, and my son was asking me, a little boy asking me, ‘Where is your father?’.” “My mother passed away in 2002, and my son was born in 2000,” Mr Albanese said. After his mother’s death, his own son Nathan started asking questions.