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With his New York job vanishing, attention has turned to whether the former MP still has a role in the property development industry.

With his New York job vanishing, attention has turned to whether the former MP still has a role in the property development industry.

With his New York job vanishing, attention has turned to whether the former MP still has a role in the property development industry.

On May 30, 1991, the revelation of a secret agreement in which the prime minister, Bob Hawke, agreed to quit after the 1990 election sparked a leadership crisis in the Labor party between Hawke and his deputy, Paul Keating.

Troy Bramston’s biography of Bob Hawke doesn’t hold back when it comes to the former Prime Minister’s achievements and flaws.

Troy Bramston’s biography of Bob Hawke doesn’t hold back when it comes to the former Prime Minister’s achievements and flaws.

It was the transformative decade: radical economic reform, takeover splurges, spectacular busts, the rapid acceleration of Australia’s Asian engagement, and emergence of more companies ready to take on the world.

US cables point to intense Washington involvement in the lead up to the 1975 Canberra Coup This is the second in a three-part series on US diplomatic cables which reveal the collaboration of Bob Hawke and other Australian Labor and union leaders with the US embassy to suppress working class struggles throughout the 1970s. July 20. Today, the population of Australia is being subjected to a constant barrage of totally unsubstantiated claims by the media, intelligence agencies and politicians of C...

From the Archives, 1995: Bob Hawke and Blanche d’Alpuget’s wedding day We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Rachel Gibson Normal text size A union that’s written in the stars If the crowd that massed outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sydney’s exclusive Double Bay yesterday was any guide, the former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, still has a little of that famous star quality left. Bob Hawke and Blanche dAlpuget on their wedding day in 1995...

Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s, a new study of declassified US diplomatic cables has demonstrated. Bob Hawke, 1982 [WSWS Media] The documents provide a graphic picture of the true character and role of the Labor Party and the unions, whic...