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Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese entered Parliament for Grayndler in 1996. His career includes infrastructure and communications portfolios, service as deputy prime minister in 2013, and Labor leadership from 2019. He became Australia’s 31st prime minister on 23 May 2022.

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THE BALLOT RECORD

Anthony Albanese’s electoral history

Election outcomes and reported vote shares, from earliest to most recent. Each row links to its source.

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POLICY, NOT PERSONALITY

Australia issue spectrum

20 ISSUES · 1–10

Each number describes a policy position, not how good a politician is. Higher means more of the policy named on that scale. Scores are editorial interpretations, not scientific measurements. Israel and Palestine are independent axes.

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SELECTED ISSUE · Foreign policy

Israeli government: diplomatic & security support

4–6/10

Evidence supports steps 4 through 6; it does not establish a single step.

Evidence, source & review dates

Evidence & assessment: The Albanese government kept diplomatic relations with Israel while, according to ABC News (14 Aug 2025), saying Australia had not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel 'for at least the past five years'; a Defence review of pre-October 2023 export permits left 35 active, amended or lapsed 16 and kept 13 under review. Foreign Minister Penny Wong and the government sanctioned ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in June 2025 with travel bans and asset freezes (ABC News, 11 Jun 2025). Australian-made F-35 components continue to enter the US-run global supply chain, which ministers describe as non-lethal parts. This combination of continued ties, targeted sanctions and limits on direct arms exports spans the 'restrict most arms transfers' to 'cooperation with targeted restrictions' steps.

Most statements on arms exports came from Defence Minister Richard Marles and Penny Wong rather than Albanese personally, and permit contents are not public. The Greens and human-rights groups dispute the government's description of F-35 parts as non-lethal; a Defence condition on direct exports of 'approved goods' to Israel, reported in November 2025 (Australian Greens release of 3 Nov 2025 citing The Nightly), was not independently verified. The range is wide because the actual scope of exports is unclear.

Read the reviewed source ↗ · Government statements and news reports

Location: Defence export permits to Israel; sanctions on two Israeli ministers (June 2025) · Evidence date: ABC News 2025-06-11 and 2025-08-14 · Reviewed: 2026-10-30 · Confidence: Low. Historical evidence may not describe today’s position.

Measures policy toward the Israeli government, not attitudes toward Jewish people or Israeli civilians. Diplomatic recognition alone does not establish an arms-policy score.

All 10 scale definitions
  1. 1End diplomatic and security ties
  2. 2Diplomatic isolation and broad sanctions
  3. 3Maintain ties; suspend military cooperation
  4. 4Maintain ties; restrict most arms transfers
  5. 5Conditional cooperation and civilian safeguards
  6. 6Continue cooperation with targeted restrictions
  7. 7Maintain most existing security cooperation
  8. 8Expand security cooperation with conditions
  9. 9Expand cooperation with few conditions
  10. 10Unconditional diplomatic and security backing

Method: use attributable votes, enacted measures, statements or a candidate’s own platform; identify source type and date; map the stated policy to the nearest defined step. Primary sources take priority. A supported interval is shown as a range, with no invented midpoint. Reviewed sources that do not establish the position are labeled “Not established”; this is not a finding that the politician has no position. No cross-issue total is calculated. Rubric v1.

FOLLOW THE DISCLOSED MONEY

Who funds Anthony Albanese?

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Israel-related funding: not verified. We do not treat a missing filing review as evidence that a politician received no money.

Supporters, detractors & context

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HOW THEY GOT HERE

A career in milestones

  1. Entered Parliament

    First elected to the House of Representatives for Grayndler in 1996.

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  2. Infrastructure minister

    Held the infrastructure, transport, regional development and local government portfolio from 2 December 2007 to 14 September 2010, then infrastructure and transport until 18 September 2013.

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  3. Deputy prime minister

    Served as deputy prime minister from 27 June to 18 September 2013.

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  4. Labor and opposition leadership

    Became Labor leader in 2019. The National Archives records his opposition leadership from 30 May 2019 to 23 May 2022.

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  5. Became prime minister

    Was sworn in as Australia’s 31st prime minister on 23 May 2022.

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  6. Sources and scope

    Career milestones checked against the National Archives and prime minister’s official biography on 30 October 2026. This is a starting biography, not a complete electoral history or review of policy positions.

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Selected career milestones, reviewed 2026-10-30. These are sourced historical summaries, not exhaustive biographies. A market listing does not establish that a person has announced a campaign or is eligible to stand.

Sources and further reading

www.pm.gov.au ↗www.naa.gov.au ↗

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Reviewed 2026-10-30. Opened and read on 30 Oct 2026: Prime Minister's media releases and transcripts (pm.gov.au and PM Transcripts), Attorney-General's and Treasury ministers' releases, the Federal Register of Legislation, and reports and analysis from ABC News, The Guardian, The Conversation and the Australian Greens. The discovery tool returned only unrelated results (businesses and products named Anthony), so every source was chosen by hand. The coverage tool timed out this run. Reuters, OpenAustralia, the Australian Human Rights Commission and the health and education ministers' pages could not be opened (access denied or timed out) and were left out. No Liberal or National Party primary statement was opened; the Coalition's arguments are represented through its statements as reported by The Conversation and ABC News.