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Robert James Lee Hawke AC GCL (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to ...
May 16, 2019 · Former Australian prime minister and Labor Party leader Bob Hawke, who dominated the country's politics in the 1980s, has died at the age of 89. The charismatic politician, renowned for his love...
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May 17, 2024 · Robert Hawke, Australian labor leader, Labor Party politician, and prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. Hawke was a brilliant trade-union official, and, when he entered Parliament in 1980, he already enjoyed immense national popularity.
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May 16, 2019 · In his first year of uni, Bob Hawke had a catastrophic motorbike crash that left his life hanging in the balance. As he saw his parents' fear, he had an epiphany that set him on the path to greatness.
May 16, 2019 · Bob Hawke was a “common man, an absorber, a listener, and in some mysterious way, a bit of a mirror of the qualities and demands and inputs which Australians project upon him”, the...
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May 16, 2019 · Bob Hawke, Australia’s hugely popular prime minister from 1983 to 1991, who presided over wrenching changes that integrated his nation into the global economy and strengthened ties with Asia and...
Australia’s 23rd Prime Minister. Bob Hawke. 11 March 1983 to 20 December 1991. Under Bob Hawke the Australian Labor Party won four consecutive elections. During his first term in office, Hawke gained the highest popularity rating of any prime minister since the introduction of public opinion polls.
