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Bob Hawke [Photo: dw.com]

Bob Hawke [Photo: dw.com]

Australia’s former PM, Bob Hawke, is dead

byAgency Report
May 16, 2019
2 min read

Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a “larrikin’’ streak who served as Australian prime minister from 1983 to 1991, died on Thursday aged 89, his family said.

“Today we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian, many would say the greatest Australian of the post-war era,” his wife and former biographer Blanche d’Alpuget, said in a statement.

Tributes

Prime Minister Scott Morrison hailed Mr Hawke’s ability to speak to all Australians.

“Bob Hawke was a great Australian who led and served our country with passion, courage, and an intellectual horsepower that made our country stronger,” he said on social media.

Mr Hawke’s death comes ahead of a Saturday general election. His opposition, Labour Party, is narrowly ahead in the polls.

“The Australian people loved Bob Hawke because they knew Bob loved them, this was true to the very end,” Labor party leader Bill Shorten said in a statement.

Mr Hawke earned his reputation as a “larrikin”, or loveable rogue, in part due to his world record for drinking a “yard”, or 1.4 litres of beer in 11 seconds while at Oxford University.

Life and times of Mr Hawke

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Robert James Lee Hawke, a former trade union leader, was first elected to parliament in 1980 and was named leader of the centre-left Labour Party less than a month before a snap general election in 1983.

Voters embraced Mr Hawke and Labour won an unlikely landslide against a conservative government led by Malcolm Fraser, who had been in power for nearly a decade.

Mr Hawke became Australia’s 23rd prime minister.

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“I regard Bob Hawke as the best Labour prime minister this country has ever had,” former conservative leader John Howard, who served as Fraser’s treasurer, said this year.

Inheriting an economy languishing in recession and with double-digit unemployment and inflation, Hawke embraced economic deregulation that belied his connections with Australia’s largest trade unions.

Mr Hawke won support from the political left to float the Australian dollar, remove controls on foreign exchange and interest rates and lower tariffs on imports within months of his inauguration.

The reforms triggered a wave of economic growth, allowing Mr Hawke to introduce universal healthcare, strengthen social security for poor families and enact stronger environmental legislation.

Within months of Mr Hawke becoming Prime Minister, Australia won sailing’s America’s Cup in 1983, ending 132 years of U.S. dominance over the oldest trophy in world sport.

Mr Hawke led the celebrations, famously sticking up of anyone who might over-do the revelry, declaring on television: “Any boss that sacks a worker for not turning up is a bum.”

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Australia also made its mark on the international stage under Hawke, who shifted diplomatic priorities away from Britain, fostering closer ties with the U.S., China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
He also spearheaded international efforts to impose economic sanctions on South Africa over apartheid.

Mr Hawke was riding high in opinion polls by the mid-1980s and won re-election in 1987 in spite of an economic downturn.

He won a fourth election in 1990 to become Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister however his popularity began to wane amid a recession.

Paul Keating, Mr Hawke’s treasurer and the architect of Labor’s economic policies, pressured him to step aside as his position weakened.

However, with no sign that Hawke would retire, Mr Keating challenged him for the leadership in 1991.

Mr Hawke saw off the first challenge but eventually lost to Mr Keating a few months later in a party-room coup.

He quit politics three months later.

Mr Hawke divorced his wife of almost 40 years, Hazel Masterson, after leaving politics and public life and married his biographer, Blanche d’Alpuget.

He appeared as a media commentator and was in demand as a public speaker.

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