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May 16, 2019 · Both popular and a politician, Labor warrior Bob Hawke lived a life marked by success and drama. The former PM commanded a rare mix of popularity and authori...
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May 20, 2019 · Australian Story celebrates the extraordinary life and career of Bob Hawke, Australia’s most popular prime minister, who died aged 89. Hawke won four elections, becoming Labor’s longest-serving...
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May 20, 2019 · Since his death, much has been written and said about the life of Bob Hawke. The ALP’s most successful and longest-serving prime minister was many things: a larrikin bloke, a uniting leader,...
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May 16, 2019 · Bob Hawke: key moments in the life and career of Labor's longest serving PM – video. Bob Hawke led Labor to four election victories. Born in South Australia, he grew in Western Australia...
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- Floating The Australian Dollar
- Opening The Australian Economy to Global Competition
- Launching Medicare
- Striking IR Agreement with Unions
- Giving The Commonwealth Power Over World Heritage Sites
- Saving Tasmania's Franklin River from Damming
- Banning Uranium Mining at Jabiluka, Arnhem Land
- Outlawing Gender Discrimination in The Workplace
- Proclaiming Advance Australia Fair, and Showing His Colours
Often described as his most significant legacy, Mr Hawke's newly elected government floated the Australian dollar on the global currency market in 1983. Before that, the Aussie dollar's value had always been pegged to that of another currency — first the British pound, then the US dollar. The move was the first in a long line of deregulation undert...
Mr Hawke was praised for modernising the national economy and integrating it into the global one. He allowed the operation of foreign-owned banks and sold the state-owned Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He also removed controls on foreign exchange and Australian interest rates. In 1989, Mr Hawke founded the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...
Mr Hawke announced Medicare in February 1984, bringing the scheme into line with the Medibank model originally introduced by Gough Whitlam but partially dismantled by Malcolm Fraser's government. Medicare became Australia's first affordable, universal system of health insurance.
Despite being a former trade union leader, Mr Hawke made significant changes to industrial relations policy. In 1983, the Australian economy needed restructuring and inflation needed to be brought under control, but Mr Hawke would face resistance from unions. While his British counterpart Margaret Thatcher tackled them head on, Mr Hawke chose the p...
After beating Malcolm Fraser in the 1983 federal election, Mr Hawke passed the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 which, along with legislation already passed by the Whitlam government, enabled the Commonwealth to protect Australia's world heritage sites from threatening actions. The legislation used a section in the constitution which...
Before the 1983 election, Tasmania's Franklin River was listed by the World Heritage Committee as a world heritage site. On his election and the passing of the new conservation act, Mr Hawke announced the river would not be dammed for a hydroelectricity development. The Liberal Tasmanian premier, Robin Gray, challenged the decision in the High Cour...
The Hawke government banned new uranium mining at Jabiluka, on the western border of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, and gave highly publicised priority to the world heritage listing of Kakadu National Park. The park was inscribed on the world heritage list in three stages, beginning in 1981 and concluding in 1992.
In 1984, the Sex Discrimination Act outlawed sex discrimination in the workplace. Mr Hawke appointed Susan Ryan to the portfolio of minister assisting the prime minister for the status of women and she served in the role from 1983 to 1988. Mr Hawke and Ms Ryan also presided over the passing of the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity fo...
Advance Australia Fair was adopted as Australia's national anthem by the governor-general in 1984, on a recommendation from Mr Hawke. The announcement followed a decade of debate, a national opinion poll in 1974 and a plebiscite in 1977. At the same time, Mr Hawke announced that green and gold would be officially recognised as Australia's national ...
May 16, 2019 · In an era of Australian leadership turmoil, the death of Bob Hawke, a beloved former prime minister, feels especially poignant ahead of a national election on Saturday, writes the BBC's Hywel...
May 16, 2019 · In an era of Australian leadership turmoil, the death of Bob Hawke, a beloved former prime minister, feels especially poignant ahead of a national election on Saturday, writes the BBC's Hywel...
