Bob Hawke
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Robert James Lee Hawke was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as leader of the Labor Party, having previou
Official portrait, 1983
Hawke is elected President of the ACTU at Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, 10 September 1969
Hawke as ACTU President in 1970
Hawke presenting a relief cheque to John Bannon, Premier of South Australia following the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires
Hazel Hawke
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Hazel Susan Hawke AO was the first wife of Bob Hawke, the 23rd prime minister of Australia. She married him in 1956, and supported him throughout his prime ministership; they divorced in 1994. She wor
Bob Hawke
…had assisted the ACTU in national wage cases. Hawke decided to abandon his doctoral studies and accept the offer, moving to Melbourne with his wife Hazel. Not long after Hawke began work at the ACTU, he became responsible for the presentation of its annual case for higher wages to the national wages…
Hawke on a visit to Moscow in 1987
Hawke and Bob on their 1987 visit to the Soviet Union
Hazel Hawke in the Lodge in the mid 1980s.