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, which have always fought to tie workers to the requirements of the corporate profit system and to the Australian ruling elite’s alignment with the dominant imperialist power of the time initially Britain and then, after World War II, the United States.
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Sydney: Chancellor David Gonski AC has announced the appointment of one of Australia’s most dynamic educational leaders, Professor Attila Brungs, as UNSW Sydney’s incoming President and Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Brungs, who will take up the position on 31 January 2022, is currently Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He will succeed Professor Ian Jacobs, who announced earlier this year his intention to step down after completing seven years in the role and return home to the UK for family reasons.
Professor Brungs has had a distinguished academic career, from receiving the University Medal in Industrial Chemistry as an undergraduate at UNSW, to becoming a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and completing a Doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry. His research into heterogeneous catalysis and sectoral leadership saw him elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Technology and Engineering.
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Chancellor David Gonski AC has announced the appointment of one of Australia’s most dynamic educational leaders, Professor Attila Brungs as UNSW Sydney’s incoming President and Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Brungs, who will take up the position on 31 January 2022, is currently Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He will succeed Professor Ian Jacobs, who announced earlier this year his intention to step down after completing seven years in the role and return home to the UK for family reasons.
Professor Brungs has had a distinguished academic career, from receiving the University Medal in Industrial Chemistry as an undergraduate at UNSW, to becoming a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and completing a Doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry. His research into heterogeneous catalysis and sectoral leadership saw him elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Technology and Engineering.
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