Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese has been Prime Minister of Australia since May 2022, leading Labor to office after nine years of Coalition government and then to a landslide re-election in 2025. Born in Sydney in 1963, he was raised in public housing in Camperdown by a single mother on a disability pension, and was told his father had died; he learned as an adult that the man was alive in Italy and met him in 2009. He was the first in his family to finish school, studied economics at Sydney University, and worked as a party organiser and adviser before entering parliament for the inner-Sydney seat of Grayndler in 1996, which he has held ever since. He came from Labor's left faction and spent most of his career as a factional operator and parliamentary tactician. He was infrastructure minister and then deputy prime minister under Kevin Rudd in 2013, and managed the parliamentary business of the minority Gillard government from 2010 — passing legislation with a one-seat margin, the achievement colleagues cite most. He became Labor leader after the party's unexpected 2019 defeat and ran a deliberately small-target campaign in 2022. In office he legislated a 43 per cent emissions reduction target and the Safeguard Mechanism, established a federal anti-corruption commission, and expanded subsidised childcare. His central initiative, a referendum in October 2023 to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, was defeated with about sixty per cent voting no — a significant personal loss. He pursued the AUKUS submarine agreement and stabilised relations with China, which lifted most trade sanctions imposed in 2020. In May 2025 Labor won a second term with an increased majority, an unusual result for an incumbent facing a cost-of-living squeeze.
- Lived: 1963 CE – ?
- Nationality: Australian
- Roles: Prime Minister of Australia (2022-present)
