Sharing a joyful selfie on social media, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced his engagement to partner Jodie Haydon on Thursday. In the picture captioned ‘She Said Yes’, Haydon can be seen showing her sparkling new diamond ring. The proposal came after a romantic Valentine's Day dinner at Italian & Sons, a restaurant in Canberra, according to a report by The Guardian. The news has been met with excitement and well-wishes from across the nation. The couple is all set to make history as potentially the first sitting prime minister to wed while in office
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00:00 Sharing a joyful selfie on social media, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced
00:08 his engagement to partner Jodie Hayden on Thursday.
00:11 In the picture captioned "She said yes," Hayden can be seen showing her sparkling new
00:16 diamond ring.
00:17 The proposal came after a romantic Valentine's Day dinner at Italian & Sons, a restaurant
00:22 in Canberra, according to a report by The Guardian.
00:24 The news has been met with excitement and well-wishes from across the nation.
00:29 The couple is all set to make history as potentially the first sitting Prime Minister to wed while
00:34 in office.
00:35 In a heartfelt joint statement, Albanese and Hayden expressed their happiness.
00:39 "We are thrilled and excited to share this news and look forward to spending the rest
00:44 of our lives together.
00:45 We are so lucky to have found each other."
00:48 Speaking later on Thursday, the Prime Minister said he put a lot of planning into the proposal.
00:52 "I put a lot of planning and thought went into everything from the date obviously, Valentine's
01:00 Day."
01:01 However, he did not answer questions about the details of any wedding preparations.
01:05 Albanese and Hayden met at a business dinner in Melbourne in 2019.
01:09 Hayden, who lives at the lodge with Albanese in Canberra and works as a women's officer
01:13 for the NSW Public Service Association, has joined the Prime Minister on a number of formal
01:18 state visits, including a state dinner at the White House with US President Joe Biden
01:23 and First Lady Jill Biden.
01:25 Born in Bankstown, Sydney, Ms. Hayden grew up on the Central Coast.
01:29 A daughter of two schoolteachers, her career began in the superannuation industry, working
01:34 as a strategic partnership manager.
01:36 In February 2022, she became a women's officer for the NSW Public Service Association.
01:42 In a 2022 interview with News Corp, Ms. Hayden said she would continue her own career pursuits
01:48 and intended to avoid political commentary.
01:50 "My job will be to focus on my day job and allow Anthony to focus on his," she said.
01:56 Ms. Hayden has previously been outspoken in her support for women's rights and safety,
02:02 such as backing the Respect@Work report's implementations.
02:05 The Foreign Affairs Minister, Albanese's longtime ally Penny Wong, congratulated the two on
02:10 social media.
02:11 "Love is a beautiful thing.
02:12 I am so happy for you both," Wong said in a post on X.
02:16 Other Labour colleagues, including the Home Affairs Minister Claire O'Neill and the Housing
02:20 Minister Julie Collins, also welcomed the news.
02:23 The opposition leader Peter Dutton also said he congratulated Albanese in the chamber on
02:27 Thursday, adding Hayden is a lovely person.
02:30 "I wish them every happiness and it is obviously a special relationship that they have got
02:35 and I wish them every success," he said.
02:38 New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon also offered his well wishes.
02:42 "Congratulations, Anthony.
02:43 Very happy for you and Jodi."
02:45 Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson also sent her congratulations.
02:49 Albanese, nicknamed Albon, joined the centre-left Labour Party while in high school and later
02:54 became deeply involved in the bruising world of student politics at the University of Sydney.
03:00 He was sworn in as Prime Minister in May 2022.
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