Why Bob Hawke was reluctant to give up being Australia’s most popular political figure
Standing naked in front of the mirror in his hotel suite, Bob Hawke had much to ponder as he lovingly combed his luxuriant ...
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Bob Hawke: Australia's former PM dies at 89
Australia loves a larrikin - a rambunctious rogue who does not care about convention. In Bob Hawke, it found a natural leader, happy to play the role. He still holds the highest approval rating of ...
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Bob Hawke: The rambunctious rogue who led Australia
Australia loves a larrikin - a rambunctious rogue who does not care about convention. In Bob Hawke, who died on Thursday at 89, the country found a natural leader, happy to play the role.
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US, Australia eager for 1980s China military co-operation, secret records reveal
Newly declassified files from the 1980s reveal the US and Australia discussed broadening military ties with China. A “secret” ...
Green-left politics is trashing our freedoms and prosperity
Australia is held back by a special kind of leftism that is essentially an assault on the fundamental human rights that drive ...
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Australia’s ‘devastating’ rise in anti-Semitism, Penny Wong warns in 25th Bob Hawke lecture after Synagogue terror attack
“Let me be clear – we have seen a devastating rise in antisemitism in Australia and elsewhere that is unacceptable.” In her speech honouring former Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke - made just ...
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The Hawke government: Recession and obsession – the power of the idée fixe
Bob Hawke and Paul Keating at the premiers' conference ... the striking thing about the cabinet records released by the National Archives of Australia on January 1 is how little the economic ...