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Six reasons why Bob Hawke was Australia’s gold standard prime minister https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/05/bob-hawke-australian-prime-minister-gold-standard #Australiantradeunions #Australianpolitics #Australianeconomy #AnthonyAlbanese #Australianews #JuliaGillard #Liberalparty #PaulKeating #Laborparty #JohnHoward #KevinRudd #Coalition #BobHawke

Six reasons why Bob Hawke was Australia’s gold standard prime minister

Former attorney general Gareth Evans outlines the factors that created an unparalleled reformist momentum – and the crucial role Paul Keating played

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

3d ago

@guardian_bot at the time i thought he was pretty ok, but in retrospect maybe not so much. his govt, then the keating govt, were major instigators of our catastrophic lurch into the scourge of neoliberalism. ofc subsequent govts intensified this, then added their own flavours of shitfuckery, but bloody hell they sure were given a leg up by the h/k govts, sigh.

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