Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke, Sr. AC, GCLis an Australian politician who was the Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party from 1983 to 1991...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth9 December 1929
CountryAustralia
morality credibility knows
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.
men political heaven
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.
stupid thinking government
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
country government doubt
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.
leadership waiting world
The world will not wait for us.
real war issues
Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
war home australia
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
leadership mean thinking
The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.
leadership class income
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.
country issues political
We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.
love religious believe
I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.
children poverty australian
By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
important scream
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
leadership prejudice inheritance
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.