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  Bob Hawke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hawke was born in Bordertown, a small town in South Australia near the Victorian border.
Hawke declared publicly that "socialist is not a word I would use to describe myself" and his approach to government was pragmatic.He concerned himself with making improvements to workers' lives from within the traditional institutions of government, rather than to any ideological theory.
Hawke was a lapsed Protestant; Keating was a practising Catholic.
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 Hazel Hawke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hazel Hawke (nee Hazel Masterson, born in Perth, Australia on 20 July 1929) is an Australian who has worked in social policy areas; however she is best known for her marriage to former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
Hawke met her future husband Bob Hawke at a church fellowship in Perth.
Hazel Hawke has acted as a prominent pro-abortion advocate in Australia, often drawing on her personal experience of having an illegal abortion in 1952 so that her future husband, the future prime minister Bob Hawke, could further his education at the University of Oxford.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hazel_Hawke   (421 words)

  
 Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke, full name Robert James Lee Hawke (born December 9, 1929), was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1983 - 1991.
An Australian Labor Party member since 1947, Hawke began working for the Australian Council of Trade Unions[?] as a researcher in 1958, and began his steady climb up Labor ranks.
His ambition, self-belief and larrikin nature were already obvious - John Button[?], Industry Minister in the Hawke Labor government, recalls Hawke holding court in the bar of a dingy pub that served as a Labor and union hangout, and, deadpan, offering him the post of Attorney-General in a future Hawke government.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Bob_Hawke.html   (304 words)

  
 Bob Hawke, 1984   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Bordertown, South Australia, Bob Hawke graduated in law and economics from the University of Western Australia and was a Rhodes Scholar in 1952.
Hawke knew the game in a press conference and was a master at making sure every journalist and photographer got their story.
Hawke won the ballot but in December 1991, he was forced to call a leadership vote and was narrowly defeated by Paul Keating.
www.1earthmedia.com /photo_portfolio/bob_hawke.htm   (317 words)

  
 Bob Hawke
Hawke's high profile in the 1972 "It's Time" campaign and his five years as national president of the Australian Labor Party made him an obvious choice for federal politics.
After Bob Hawke's triumphant fourth-term victory there were rumours that he was about to retire and hand over to Keating, who had been deputy prime minister since April 1990.
Bob Hawke was a popular prime minister who said that he wanted to be remembered as "the larrikin trade union leader who perhaps had sufficient common sense and intelligence to tone down his larrikinism and behave in a way that a prime minister should.
members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume6/prime_ministers/bob_hawke.htm   (1043 words)

  
 Prime Minister - Robert James Hawke
Hawke was president of the University's Student Representative Council and graduated with a Law degree and an Arts degree in 1953.
In 1962 Hawke was a delegate to a conference for nominees from Commonwealth countries, sponsored by the Duke of Edinburgh and held in Canada.
Hawke was elected Labor Party leader on 8 February 1983, and the federal election was called for 5 March 1983.
www.gavmag.com /austpm/pm_hawke.htm   (2861 words)

  
 The World Today - Bob Hawke criticises the term 'just war'
Mr Hawke was Prime Minister when Alec Campbell and those other elderly Anzacs returned to Gallipoli for probably the last time for many of them on Anzac Day in 1990, the 75th anniversary of the debacle campaign.
BOB HAWKE: While in a sense the war shaped him, it never defined him in its own terms.
BOB HAWKE: And of course in a sense that brings me to the way I would wish to close and the way I wished… I think Alec would wish me to close.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s823959.htm   (721 words)

  
 National Museum of Australia - Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke unsuccessfully stood as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) candidate against Hubert Opperman, Liberal Minister for Immigration in the seat of Corio, Victoria, at the 1963 general election.
Bob Hawke was elected to federal parliament at the general election on 18 October 1980 as the ALP candidate for the seat of Wills, Victoria, which he held through the next four general elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.
Hawke and Treasurer P.J. Keating were criticised for having 'hijacked' the ALP, moving it away from its traditional working class base and from its previous socialist philosophy.
www.nma.gov.au /schools/school_resources/resource_websites_and_interactives/primeministers/bob_hawke   (1489 words)

  
 THE HAWKE MEMOIRS by Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke has been a leader in every arena he entered - academia, student affairs, the trade union movement, and federal politics.
"Bob Hawke has always maintained a special relationship with the Australian people, living his political and personal life never far from public scrutiny - mostly praised but often condemned for his unexpected attitudes and emotions.
Bob Hawke's years in power saw the forging of a dynamic partnership with his Treasurer, Paul Keating.
www.middlemiss.org /lit/australian/hawkememoirs.html   (520 words)

  
 Hawke Bob - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hawke, Bob (1929- ), Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991).
He was born Robert James Lee Hawke in Bordertown, South...
Hawke, Bob (quotations): Equality: Now I came to power and I said: "Look, this is…
au.encarta.msn.com /Hawke_Bob.html   (122 words)

  
 Old Parliament House - Personalities - Bob Hawke
Hawke’s struggles to appease the ALP Left whilst shifting ever more to the Right, and his willingness to assume the status of the ALP’s Messiah, are regular Pryor themes.
Hawke’s term as Prime Minister came to an end in 1991 after a leadership challenge by his former Treasurer, Paul Keating.
Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library at the Hawke Centre, University of South Australia.
www.oph.gov.au /content.asp?pageID=131   (283 words)

  
 Bulletin - McKew: Bob Hawke, Prime Minister 1983-1991   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Beyond that, Hawke’s advice is that “Simon and the leadership have to concentrate on marking out those basic areas – health, education, research and development, the security of the region – and to point out the awful inadequacy of the government’s performance.
Hawke speaks from a background of someone who had plenty of his own battles with a caucus that was often deeply suspicious of American behaviour and motives.
Hawke is convinced that Bush, Blair and Howard are engaged in nothing short of a destructive march of folly.
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 Australian Labor Party: Bob Hawke -
Born in Bordertown, South Australia, Hawke graduated in law and economics from the University of Western Australia and was that state's Rhodes scholar in 1952.
Hawke entered federal parliament in 1980 as the Labor member for Wills in Victoria, having resigned form the ACTU.
In mid 1991 he was challenged for the Labor leadership by Paul Keating, who claimed that Hawke had reneged on an agreement made with him about the transfer of the leadership before the 1990 election.
www.alp.org.au /people/hawke_bob.php   (346 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hawke, Bob   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A trade-union official and member of the Labor party, he was first elected to parliament in 1969.
NSW: Bob Hawke lobbies John Howard for $5mln towards centre
SA: Bob Hawke, Bill Wood and Scott Hicks on SA economic board
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/05706.html   (366 words)

  
 TOP AUSSIE GUIDE
Bob had to be chauffered around lots because half the time he was too pissed to drive.
Bob is Australia's favourite politician and a pisstank and he is a top Aussie.
Ned Kelly was born at Beveridge, Victoria, in December 1854.
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 AM - Hawke nominates Australia as world's nuclear waste dump
MICHAEL VINCENT: Bob Hawke may not have written a diary dumping on his party colleagues, but his idea for making Australia a nuclear waste dump may be just as unpalatable.
BOB HAWKE: Australia has the geologically safest places in the world for the storage of waste.
BOB HAWKE: That's right, but look this is, I mean this is revolutionary, I started off saying it's revolutionary, but it's the sort of thing, you sit down, there are intelligent… I've talked with some of the Greens.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1469140.htm   (647 words)

  
 The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library was established by the University of South Australia in December 1997 as an integral component of the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.
The Centre honours Bob Hawke, a third generation South Australian and one of the 20th century’s most notable Prime Ministers.
The Hawke Centre, Institute and Library are politically non-partisan; developed for the future benefit of the general community, students, researchers and university communities worldwide.
www.unisa.edu.au /hawkecentre/library/default.asp   (745 words)

  
 Interview: Bob Hawke
HAWKE: Well, the fact is that the party has lost three elections in a row and that's led to some loss of morale, Laurie, more examination of what you need to do to make yourself more attractive.
HAWKE: Well, you ought to be careful, Laurie, of allowing the realities to be depicted by the way some of your colleagues carry on in the press and make that sort of issue.
HAWKE: Well, I think of course that here you've got a position where the Australian government is leaping ahead almost of the United States.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1122.asp   (2448 words)

  
 Robert James Lee Hawke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Certainly, Bob Hawke's style was in sharp contrast to the seemingly aloof and reserved Fraser.
Hawke spent his formative years in the narrow environment of country and suburban life of that era and in the disciplined atmosphere of a Nonconformist parsonage.
An uncle, Albert Hawke, who was a member of the Labor Party, became his political mentor and at 17 Bob Hawke joined the party.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5557/hawke.html   (1772 words)

  
 Bob Hawke in TutorGig Encyclopedia
Hawke declared publicly that "socialist is not a word I would use to describe myself" and his approach to government was pragmatic.He concerned himself with making improvements to workers' lives from within the traditional institutions of government, rather than to any idealogical theory.
In February 1983, on the same day that Fraser called an election for 5 March, Hayden was persuaded to resign and Hawke became Labor leader without opposition.
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 Hawke weighs into liar-liar debate - Breaking News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke has accused the Howard government of an almost endless list of lies, including over the children overboard affair, as the debate about political honesty turns personal.
Mr Hawke, who defeated Mr Howard at the 1987 federal election, said nothing had disfigured Australia's political landscape like the Howard government's dishonesty over the children overboard affair.
Mr Hawke said the children overboard lie had created a climate of hatred towards asylum seekers and an atmosphere Mr Howard thought was conducive to his re-election.
www.smh.com.au - !http: //www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/24/1093246528673.html   (486 words)

  
 Bob Hawke - Saxton Speaker Bureau - Speaker Details
Robert (Bob) Hawke AC led the Labor Party to victory in the general election of March 1983 and became Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister, winning three successive elections.
Mr Hawke joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1947 and was elected President of the ALP for the period 1973-1978.
Mr Hawke is also engaged in business consulting work and he published The Hawke Memoirs in August 1994.
www.saxton.com.au /default.asp?sd8=82   (158 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bob Hawke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hawke, Bob HAWKE, BOB [Hawke, Bob] (Robert James Lee Hawke), 1929-, Australian statesman.
Bob Hawke enters election ring to blast GST and Bishop
Fed: Labor can win next election says former PM Bob Hawke
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Bob+Hawke   (364 words)

  
 Drinking records
Hawke entered the Guinness Book of Records for his feat and said he was not surprised it was brought up at such a formal occasion.
Hawke and Williams epitomise what it means to be a beer loving australian.
Bob Hawke was a Rhodes Scholar and one of Australia's longest serving and most popular Prime Ministers, ever.
www.australianbeers.com /culture/drinkingrecords.htm   (1699 words)

  
 Hawke's Bay - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Hawke's Bay - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Hawke's Bay, region centred on Hawke Bay on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
Since the local government reforms of November 1989 New Zealand has had 16 regions, each governed by a council.
au.encarta.msn.com /Hawke's_Bay.html   (107 words)

  
 Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre - home page
I commend the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre for its efforts in strengthening democracy, valuing cultural diversity and building the future through its public program, research institute and library.
2006 Annual Hawke Lecture: A new Australian consensus for the 21st Century
This site will work and look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
www.unisa.edu.au /hawkecentre   (124 words)

  
 Docushare : The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library : University of South Australia: Archival lists for the records of ...
Records which were transferred from the National Archives of Asutralia to the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library are still to be included.
It includes photographs of Bob Hawke as a child, his parents Clem and Ellie Hawke, Hazel Hawke, their children and grand children.
This is a collection of Mr Hawke’s speeches collected by Professor John Wood who was a speechwriter for the Prime Minister during 1985 and 1986.
docushare.unisa.edu.au /docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-415   (403 words)

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