Background
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 (Cronulla, NSW) high schools. She went on to earn an Economics degree from Sydney University, graduating in 1986. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1985, and is a member of its left-wing faction.
In 2000, Tebbutt married Anthony Albanese, the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in the federal Labor Government. Interestingly, her state seat of Marrickville is contained almost entirely within her husband's federal seat of Grayndler, leading the Greens to dub them as the 'King and Queen of Marrickville'. She and her husband have one young son named Nathan.
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