In emotional interview, Anthony Albanese opens up about long-lost father

By Fergus Hunter
Updated August 25 2016 - 3:25am, first published August 23 2016 - 9:40pm
Anthony Albanese with his father, Carlo Albanese, in Barletta, Italy. Photo: Lisa Golden
Anthony Albanese with his father, Carlo Albanese, in Barletta, Italy. Photo: Lisa Golden
"As you get older, you get a need to discover where you're from, what your origins are.": Anthony Albanese. Photo: ABC
"As you get older, you get a need to discover where you're from, what your origins are.": Anthony Albanese. Photo: ABC

Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese has opened up about the childhood discovery that his father was alive and the search, decades later, for the man he knew almost nothing about.