Education and Personal Life
Robertson was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up in the suburb of Eastwood, attending Epping Boys' High School. He obtained his law degree from the Sydney Law School before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Sydney.
In 1990 Robertson married author Kathy Lette, and they live together in London with their children. They had met in 1988 during the filming of a Hypothetical episode for ABC Television; Robertson was going out with Nigella Lawson at the time and Lette was married to Kim Williams, today CEO of News Limited. In his 2010 Who's Who entry, he lists his hobbies as tennis, opera and fishing.
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