Jodie Haydon (born 1978) is an Australian financial services professional and women's advocate. She is the partner of

Anthony Albanese Anthony Norman Albanese ( or ; born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019 and the member of parlia ...

, the 31st and current

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since 23 May 2022.

Early life and career

Haydon was born in 1978 at

Bankstown Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is located in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, hav ...

, Sydney, and grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, the daughter of two teachers. She dropped out of university and began a career in superannuation spanning 20 years in banking and finance companies including

industry superannuation fund An industry superannuation fund (or, simply, 'industry fund') is an Australian superannuation fund originally established to provide for the retirement of workers from a specific industry. While industry funds are no longer tied to specific in ...

s. In February 2022, Haydon was hired in a new position as women's officer, following her role as a union delegate for the NSW Public Service Association.

Personal life

Haydon met Anthony Albanese in March 2020 at a business dinner in Melbourne where he was speaking. They both followed the rugby league team

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, and lived near each other in Sydney's

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. Albanese and his wife of 19 years,

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, had separated in 2019. Haydon and Albanese became partners in 2021. Haydon accompanied Albanese during the

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campaign. She subsequently accompanied him on official prime minister's visits to Dubai,

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and Paris.

References

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