After Labor's victory in the 2007 election, Albanese was appointed Leader of the House, and was also made Minister for Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport.

He was first appointed to the shadow cabinet in 2001 by Simon Crean and went on to serve in a number of roles, eventually becoming Manager of Opposition Business in 2006. Albanese was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1996 election, winning the seat of Grayndler in New South Wales. He joined the Labor Party as a student, and before entering Parliament worked as a party official and research officer. He attended St Mary's Cathedral College before going on to the University of Sydney to study economics. Albanese previously served as the 15th deputy prime minister under the second Kevin Rudd government in 2013 he held various ministerial positions in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013.Īlbanese was born in Sydney to an Italian father and an Irish-Australian mother who raised him as a single parent. He has been leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for Grayndler since 1996. Anthony Norman Albanese ( / ˌ æ l b ə ˈ n iː z i/ AL-bə- NEEZ-ee or / ˈ æ l b ə n iː z/ AL-bə-neez born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022.

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