Labor leader AlboMP has brought former Australian of the Year TamePunk and her fiance to tears during a candid and emotional interview. auspol 7NEWS
“Who are the gender diverse voices around you now, or in the past, who have helped shape your views on gender issues and policy?” Tame asked Albanese.“I grew up with just me and Mum. She made the courageous decision back in 1963 to have a child out of wedlock.”
“In the fashion of the day, she was going to have got the news that my father had died and then lost the baby and I was going to be adopted out, because in 1963, when I was born, it was acceptable to be a widow but it wasn’t acceptable to be an unmarried mother.” “So it was just me and her - and a two-person family, I think, is particularly close. It’s one of the things that has focused me and a part of who I am.
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