Anthony Albanese, an ‘Italian’ at the helm of Australia. Who is it: the origins

After the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro – whose families are originally from Lucca and the other from Treviso – another politician of Italian blood rises to the government of a large country on the other side of the world. This is Anthony Albanese, 59, a Labor worker, who yesterday defeated the outgoing premier, the liberal Scott Morrison, in Australia. On 23 May Albanian will take office, but will be forced to form a coalition government. The story of him, and that of his parents, seems to be written by a soap opera writer. 1962, March: that between Maryanne and Carlo was love at first sight, a sudden love born on a ship that traveled from Sydney, Australia to Southampton, United Kingdom. She was a girl of Irish origin who returned to visit her relatives in her motherland; he was a steward from Barletta who served on the Fairsky of the Sitmar Line, 153 meters and 1460 passengers. The trip of over two months was a convict: the boys met on the decks of the ship and loved each other in the bunks of the staff. Carlo and Maryanne greeted each other without rancor at the port of Southampton: a beautiful love story that could not have continued, better left like this, without regrets. But she didn’t know she got pregnant, she only found out when she returned to Australia. He wrote to Carlo, the answer was cold: sorry, I loved you, but now I have a partner with whom I intend to start a family, and then who knows if the child is mine … When on March 2, 1963 at St Margaret’s Hospital in Darlinghurst, a suburb of Sydney, Maryanne Ellery gave birth to her son, whom she named Anthony Norman, she seemed determined to give him in foster care, but resisted and made up a story: she gave him the surname of her biological father surprising her own family. Carlo did not even know the news. Maryanne …