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Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and as president of the Labor Party national executive from 1973 to 1978.
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Born 9 December 1929 · Died 16 May 2019 · Q269372
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that Australia is not going to open the floodgates ... We will have to try and find a way of showing our sympathy while stopping the flood of what basically are illegal immigrants.
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2026· 5 entries
“that Australia is not going to open the floodgates ... We will have to try and find a way of showing our sympathy while stopping the flood of what basically are illegal immigrants.”
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“s pre-election concealment of the budget deficit meant that many of Labor”
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“socialist is not a word I would use to describe myself”
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news24.com.au: Albanese embraces Hawke as Labor model, despite earlier clashes
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2022· 1 entry
Was charged to all university students, and the Commonwealth paid the balance
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2021· 1 entry
And opened as an accommodation and function space in May 2024
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2019· 2 entries
7NEWS Australia: Bob Hawke dies, aged 89: Former prime minister passes away
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Died 2019-05-16.
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2016· 1 entry
After taking part in Andrew Denton's Better Off Dead podcast, Hawke added his voice to calls for voluntary euthanasia to be legalised
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Cabinet papers 1988-89: Bob Hawke acted alone in offering asylum to Chinese students
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2010· 1 entry
Reignited conflict between the two, with Keating accusing Hawke and d'Alpuget of spreading falsehoods about his role in the Hawke government
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2009· 1 entry
Hawke helped establish the Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia
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2008· 2 entries
“s Christian faith had continued to influence his outlook, saying”
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That his father's Christian faith had continued to influence his outlook, saying "My father said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily, and
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2002· 1 entry
Hawke was named to South Australia's Economic Development Board during the Rann government
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1997· 1 entry
By the University of South Australia in Adelaide
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1994· 2 entries
After he left her for the writer Blanche d'Alpuget, and the two lived together in Northbridge, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney
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“The prime minister, because of his unreasoned drive to get his own way, his obstinacy, impetuous and emotional reactions, has imposed strains upon the Liberal Party, the government and the public service. I do not believe he is fit to hold the great office of prime minister, and I cannot serve in his government.”
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1991· 1 entry
Career landmark: Treasurer of Australia (1991–1991).
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1989· 2 entries
Hawke oversaw the gradual re-introduction of some tuition fees for university study, setting up the Higher Education Contributions Scheme (HECS)
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After Hawke proposed a south-east Asian region-wide forum for leaders and economic ministers to discuss issues of common concern
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1987· 1 entry
Preventing the forests there from being logged
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University (1986).
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The Hawke government passed a bill to de-register the Builders Labourers Federation federally due to the union not following the Accord agreements
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1985· 1 entry
As well as seeking to overturn Australia's long-standing ban on uranium exports
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1984· 3 entries
1987 and 1990 elections, making him the most electorally successful prime minister in the history of the Labor Party
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The Hawke government enacted the landmark Sex Discrimination Act 1984, which eliminated discrimination on the grounds of sex within the workplace
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For instance, a remote area allowance was introduced for pensioners and beneficiaries residing in special areas of Tax Zone A, and in 1985 a special addition to family allowances was made payable (as noted by one study)
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1983· 8 entries
The Hawke government took the opportunity to implement a comprehensive program of economic reform, in the process "transform(ing) economics and politics in Australia"
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Which brought together business and industrial leaders together with politicians and trade union leaders; the three-day summit led to a unanimous adoption of a national economic strategy, generating sufficient political
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Australia (1983–1991).
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Hawke said "any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum", effectively declaring an impromptu national public holiday
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The two formed a personal as well as political relationship which enabled the Government to pursue a significant number of reforms, although there were occasional points of tension between the two
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“any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum”
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Hawke personally vetoed the construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania, responding to a groundswell of protest around the issue
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An agreement whereby unions agreed to restrict their demands for wage increases, and in turn the Government guaranteed to both minimise inflation and promote an increased social wage, including by establishing new social
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1982· 1 entry
Published a biography of Hawke
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1980· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Australian House of Representatives (1980–1992).
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Hawke stood down from his roles as ACTU and Labor Party president to announce his intention to enter parliamentary politics, and was subsequently elected to the Australian House of Representatives as a member of parliame
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That he would abstain from alcohol to seek election to Parliament, in a move which garnered significant public attention and support
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (1979).
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1973· 1 entry
Was appointed as president of the Labor Party
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1971· 2 entries
An honour which his wife disputed due to his heavy drinking and womanising
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Hawke along with other members of the ACTU requested that South Africa send a non-racially biased team for the rugby union tour, with the intention of unions agreeing not to serve the team in Australia
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1969· 2 entries
Was encouraged to run for the position of ACTU President, despite the fact that he had never held elected office in a trade union
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On a modernising platform by the narrow margin of 399 to 350, with the support of the left of the union movement, including some associated with the Communist Party of Australia
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1956· 2 entries
Hawke accepted a scholarship to undertake doctoral studies in the area of arbitration law in the law department at the Australian National University in Canberra
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Hawke joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as a research officer
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1953).
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1952· 2 entries
With Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees
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“there were all these poverty stricken kids at the gate of this palatial place where we were feeding our face and I just (was) struck by this enormous sense of irrelevance of religion to the needs of people”
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-12-09.
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