Carmel Tebbutt

The Honourable Carmel Tebbutt

15th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
In office 5 September 2008 – 28 March 2011
Premier	Nathan Rees Kristina Keneally
Preceded by	John Watkins
Succeeded by	Andrew Stoner
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
In office 30 April 1998 – 26 August 2005
Preceded by	Ann Symonds
Succeeded by	Penny Sharpe
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Marrickville
In office 17 September 2005 – 6 March 2015
Preceded by	Andrew Refshauge
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	Carmel Mary Tebbutt (1964-01-22) 22 January 1964 (age 53) Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s)	Anthony Albanese
Website	Parliamentary website

Carmel Mary Tebbutt (born 22 January 1964) is an Australian former 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.

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.

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.