Anthony Albanese shares emotional message for Mother’s Day – and reveals the heartbreaking reason it will always be a bittersweet time of year
- Anthony Albanese shared Mother’s Day message
- He revealed why it was a bittersweet day for him
Anthony Albanese has shared a touching message to celebrate Mother’s Day and recognise those who are spending the day without their loved ones.
In the bittersweet social media post, the Prime Minister also paid tribute to his own mother, Maryanne, who died aged 65 on May 25, 2002.
‘Mother’s Day is a special day. Yet for me and many others it’s always a bit difficult,’ Mr Albanese wrote, alongside a series of photos of him and his late mum together.
Anthony Albanese has shared a touching message to celebrate Mother’s Day and recognise those who are spending the day without their mums
‘Mother’s Day was the day my mum went to hospital and never came back.’
Mr Albanese added that every Mother’s Day, he remembered how much his mum sacrificed for him.
‘She always gave me unconditional love. And I feel very privileged to have had that. Mums really are special,’ he wrote.
‘A happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there.’
Mr Albanese shared similar messages on Mother’s Day last year and in 2021, when he was still opposition leader.
He often tells the story of his upbringing in public housing in Sydney’s inner west, explaining he and his mum didn’t have much but he knew how much they loved each other.
Mr Albanese’s mum raised him on her own while receiving a disability pension as she struggled with rheumatoid arthritis that crippled her joints and stopped her from working.
And it was his mother’s influence and their struggle to make ends meet that inspired the man who would become prime minister to get into politics with a promise not to leave anyone behind.
In 2022, Mr Albanese said his mother was brave for bringing him into the world.
In the bittersweet social media post, the Prime Minister also paid tribute to his own mother, Maryanne, who died aged 65 on May 25, 2002
Mr Albanese’s mum raised him on her own while receiving a disability pension as she struggled with rheumatoid arthritis that crippled her joints and stopped her from working
‘She made the courageous decision in 1963 to keep a child she had out of wedlock,’ he said.
‘She chose, in order to – to deal with the pressures that were on a young Catholic woman at that time, in those circumstances, to take my father’s name, and I was raised being told that he had died.
‘That’s a tough decision. It says something about the pressure that was placed on women.
‘And pressures that are still placed on women, when faced with difficult circumstances.
‘So, the fact that – that young kid is now running for prime minister, says a lot about her. And her courage.
‘But also says a lot about this country. About this country.’
Mr Albanese believed his father had been killed in a car accident until he was about 15 when mother Maryanne revealed she had had fallen pregnant after a brief fling with an Italian steward she met on a voyage from Sydney to England.
Maryanne died in 2002 aged 65. ‘She was spent and compared with her life mine’s been an absolute dream,’ Mr Albanese told Daily Mail Australia.
Mr Albanese finally met his father, Carlo, in Italy in 2009. Carlo died of cancer in 2014.
