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Hawke, Bob (Robert James Lee)

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Hawke, Bob (Robert James Lee) (1929- )

Australian Labor politician, prime minister 1983-91, on the right wing of the party. He was president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions 1970-80. He announced his retirement from politics in 1992.

He retired after his former finance minister, Paul Keating, defeated him in a December 1991 party leadership ballot, and became a television commentator. A ‘man of the people’, he was the first Labor prime minister to win more than two elections.

The son of a Congregational Church cleric, Hawke studied law at the University of West Australia and was Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, UK. President of the Australian Labor Party from 1973, he was elected to the federal parliament in 1980. As prime minister from 1982 he oversaw economic deregulation and with his open governing style remained popular until the economic recession from 1990.



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