Bob Hawke

Politician

1929-12-09 – 2019-05-16

Bob Hawke was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He was a major figure in modern Australian political and economic reform.

Quotes by Bob Hawke

The greatest stain upon this great Australian nation's character, without any question, is the great gaps that exist between our Aboriginal brothers and sisters in terms of their health, their education, their living conditions, their incarceration rates and life expectancy. It's a great stain.
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I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.
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There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
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I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
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From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.
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