[43], During the 1977 federal election, he emerged as a strident opponent of accepting Vietnamese boat people as refugees into Australia, stating that they should be subject to normal immigration requirements and should otherwise be deported. The recommendation was made by Hawke's mentor at ANU, H. P. Brown, who for a number of years had assisted the ACTU in national wage cases. Hawke briefly returned to the backbench, before resigning from Parliament on 20 February 1992, sparking a by-election which was won by the independent candidate Phil Cleary from among a record field of 22 candidates. Former NSW opposition leader John Brogden blamed Hawke for contributing to his downfall by leaking information to the media and political enemies a claim that Hawke denied. Hawke previously served as Minister for International Development and the Pacific and Assistant Minister for Defence from May 2019 to December 2020, and Special Minister of State from 2018 to 2019 in the Second and First Morrison Ministries respectively. [104], By the end of 1990, frustrated by the lack of any indication from Hawke as to when he might retire, Keating made a provocative speech to the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Seven months after Mr Hawke's death his youngest daughter Rosslyn Dillon took legal action against her stepmother, claiming $4.2million from her father's estate. CANBERRA, Australia Bob Hawke, Australia's longest-serving Labor Party prime minister, whose charisma and powers of persuasion earned him near-folk hero status among many Australians, died on . [116] After Keating's defeat and the election of the Howard government at the 1996 election, he returned to public campaigning with Labor and regularly appearing at election launches. Mr Hawke's entire estate went to his second wife and former mistress Blanche d'Alpuget. Labor Party power-brokers, such as Graham Richardson and Barrie Unsworth, now openly switched their allegiance from Hayden to Hawke. Hawke's solution was to hold wages down "through a tripartite arrangement of employers, government and unions". Age Wikipedia Net Worth And Parents. [17], Hawke was elected to Parliament as Member for Mitchell on 24 November 2007. Hawke appointed John Kerin to replace Keating as Treasurer. That case, which revealed friction between 59-year-old Ms Dillon and 76-year-old Ms d'Alpuget, was settled out of court in May with the terms to remain confidential. Friday essay: how Blanche d'Alpuget's 'warts and all' biography of her lover Bob Hawke helped make him prime minister.
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