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Bob Hawke was born on 9 December 1929 in Border Town, South Australia, [10] the second child of Arthur "Clem" Hawke (1898–1989), a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Edith Emily (Lee) (1897–1979) [11] [12] (known as Ellie), a schoolteacher. [13] His uncle, Bert, was the Labor premier of Western Australia between 1953 and 1959. [14]
"Today we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian – many would say the greatest Australian of the post-war era," his wife and former biographer Blanche d’Alpuget said in a statement. While others ...
Hazel Susan Hawke AO (née Masterson, 20 July 1929 – 23 May 2013) was the first wife of Bob Hawke, the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. She married him in 1956, and supported him throughout his prime ministership (1983–1991); they divorced in 1995.
Bob Hawke (1983–1991); born to a Congregationalist minister [20] [21] He subsequently abandoned his Christian beliefs. [22] By the time he entered politics he was a self-described agnostic. [23] Julia Gillard (2010–2013); as brought up in the Baptist tradition, but is an atheist. In a 2010 interview, when asked if she believed in God, she ...
Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a "larrikin' streak who served as Australian prime minister from 1983 to 1991, died on Thursday aged 89, his family said.
Three former prime ministers lost a majority in the House (Alfred Deakin on two occasions, George Reid and Andrew Fisher), six resigned following leadership spills (John Gorton, Bob Hawke, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull) and three died in office (Joseph Lyons, John Curtin and Harold Holt, who disappeared and is ...
Howard has also been the oldest living Australian former prime minister since the death of Bob Hawke in May 2019. Howard was born in Sydney and studied law at the University of Sydney. He was a commercial lawyer before entering parliament.
In 1995 she joined the board of Robert J. Hawke & Associates, a business consultancy primarily focussed on China. For fifteen years d'Alpuget abandoned her career as a writer and travelled the world with her new husband, visiting not only capital cities but remote areas of China, Inner Mongolia , Moldova , Easter Island , Palau , Kazakhstan ...