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 Au...