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Anthony Albanese

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“all of 65 years. But it was very much part of the culture. So I would have been going along to Branch Me. She never held a position in her life. She was a life member of the Labour Party because she was in it for 40 years. And my grandfather was president of the Camperdown branch of the Labour Party. They were just rank and file people. He was a printer, so he did a lot of printing for the Labor Party. He had his own printing business. My mum would have seen, I remember 1972, I was a little kid, but I do remember when Gough Whitlam won, it was seen after 23 years of conservative rule was seen as our team winning. That was the way that everyone saw it in my local neighbourhood.”
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“Well, I say that I was raised by my mum with three great faiths, the Catholic Church, the Australian Labor Party and South Sydney Rugby League Football Club. And where I grew up in council housing, part of the culture really was that people went to church on Sunday, people went to the Labour Party branch on the second Wednesday or the first Monday of the month. And they voted Labor. I don't think before I went to university I met anyone who admitted to not voting Labor. It was just part of the culture and the council housing where I grew up and that then got sold to the state government and became state government public housing. My mum lived there for her entire 65 years of her life. She was spent essentially after”
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“Not really, no. He was a seafarer. He was a man of the world, travel the world from a relatively poor part of Italy, of course. I thought he was from Naples because that was what my mother had told me about them docking in Naples at one stage, ended up, he was on the other side of that beautiful part of Italy there. But he had lost some of his English, but occasionally it would be completely fluent. And so I could certainly see what my mother saw in him, but he'd lived a whole life with his family, their lovely, warm, beautiful people, and they were very welcoming of me. It's a bit strange for me. Them, I think having someone across the other side of the world who's now the Australian PM. But the world's a complex place and relationships are complex as we know.”
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“Birth naming and indeed the name that she really had was known to Carlo and that I'd be visiting on this day. Like I literally had a window that was ours. And so I wasn't sure what to expect, but he walked in to, there was an intermediary solicitor friend of my brother's. Really, in my life. And it could have ended, he could have said, I have no idea what you're talking about. I had no expectations. I made it clear through the intermediary I didn't want anything. I just wanted to meet the person who I thought Was my father, so we had a meeting with the intermediary on the Saturday night, and then Sunday morning we were able to connect. And it's interesting the way that genetics works, but my son looks just like one of his cousins, or did when they were younger.”
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“I was the transport minister at the time and I had a meeting scheduled in Rome where trying to do an air services agreement between Australia and Europe. The European Union minister was Minister Tajani who I'd met in Brussels and we agreed to meet in Rome. And so I had this visit to Rome scheduled and I contacted the family. They were a little bit cautious. I did it through an intermediary. I did it carefully and respectfully. I just said that my mother, Mary,”
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“But in that brief period, I got to engage with him and I took my son over to meet his grandfather in Easter actually. We were there for Easter 2010 and I took him back another time as well. And he engages now with his cousins on social media and on Facebook etc and he's been over there independently as well to meet with his Italian relatives.”
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“And my son said to me as a little boy, it's about, he was about five, and he said, where's your daddy? And I realized that it wasn't fair on him to say, you know, I don't know because I didn't really know at that time. So it took a little while to find him, but I was very fortunate. There were shipping records and I was able to find him in Puglia and traveled over in December 2009 to meet him and to meet now people I found was a half-sister and brother as well and nieces and nephews and it was a wonderful completion of my life of my identity and knowing where I came from he passed away”
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“And she had a tough life, basically, but she gave me unconditional love and was a great mum. And so for me at the time, I was, well, he didn't want to know about me, so I don't really want to know much about him. And that was the right thing to do by her as well, in my view at the time, to reassure her that she was enough in my life. So I didn't search for him at all until she passed away in 2002. In December of 2000, I was fortunate enough to have Nathan, our son, my then wife and myself had our son. And there was a day when I was visiting my mum's grave at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney here.”
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“In the Catholic community. But of course Nanat Samagots Hospital knew that she didn't want to give me up so I was brought into her and she wasn't about to let go of me. So I was born. I was told that my father was deceased until I was a teenager and when she thought I was old enough in my teens she told me the true story. I did. I was 46 when I met my father. When she told me I was a pretty tough young kid. My mum was an envelope pensioner. She had rheumatoid arthritis. She was very crippled up with that so she couldn't work. So my grandparents passed away when I was young and there was just me and mum in the house.”
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“I came along in 1963 and my mother found that she was pregnant to him. He was betrothed to someone from his town in Italy. So she returned home. At that time, of course, in 1963, it wasn't acceptable to have a child out of wedlock. The neighborhood where she lived with her mother and father in a council house in Camperdown, which is in the inner city of Sydney, everyone was told that my father had died and that she was supposed to lose the baby in childbirth and I was to be adopted out. That was a very common thing particularly”
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“Yeah, thanks. And thanks everyone for joining us online or watching at a later time as well. It's a great pleasure to be able to talk to this audience, which has a very large following in Australia along with other places as well. Well, I was born in 1963 to my mother Mary Ann, who travelled overseas, did the Australian journey, then by ship, the fair star. She travelled via what was then Singapore and Ceylon and then through the Middle East to Southampton. There she met my father who worked on the ship Carlo. And so they had a relationship.”
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