Carmel Tebbutt

Carmel Mary Tebbutt (born 22 January 1964) is a former Australian politician. She was the Australian Labor Party Member for the former seat of Marrickville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until the 2015 election and was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2011. She was also Minister for Health in the Keneally Government. She is the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Premier of New South Wales.

Early life

Tebbutt is one of seven children. She was born and raised in the country town of Forbes. Her family then moved to the Sutherland Shire in Sydney where she attended Our Lady of Fatima Catholic primary school, Our Lady of Mercy College, Burraneer girls high school, then completed her HSC at De La Salle College in Cronulla. She went on to earn an Economics degree from the University of Sydney, graduating in 1986. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1985, as a member of its left-wing faction.

Personal life

In 2000, Tebbutt married Anthony Albanese, later the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in the Rudd and Gillard federal Labor governments. Her former state seat of Marrickville was contained almost entirely within her husband's federal seat of Grayndler, leading the Greens to dub them the 'King and Queen of Marrickville'. She and her husband have a son named Nathan.