Bob and hazel hawke biography

Prime Minister of Australia from to

Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December &#;– 16 May ) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from to He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from to and president of the Labor Party national executive from to

Hawke was born in Border Town, South Australia.^[a] He attended the University of Western Australia and went on to study at University College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In , Hawke joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as a research officer. Having risen to become responsible for national wage case arbitration, he was elected as president of the ACTU in , where he achieved a high public profile. In , he was appointed as president of the Labor Party.

In , Hawke stood down from his roles as ACTU and Labor Party president to announce his

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Bob Hawke

11 March to 20 månad

Under Bob Hawke the Australian Labor Party won four consecutive elections. During his first term in office, Hawke gained the highest popularity rating of any prime minister since the introduction of public opinion polls.

A former trade union leader, Hawke believed in government by consensus and managed with considerable success to establish agreement between business and the unions in the pursuit of economic growth.

Hawke's beginnings

Robert James Lee Hawke was born in Bordertown, South Australia, on 9 månad He was the second of two sons of Clement Hawke, a congregational minister, and Ellie Lee, a lärare, both of Cornish ancestry.

After the death of Hawke’s older brother, the family moved to Leederville, Western Australia, where Hawke grew up. Clement’s brother, Albert (Bert) RG Hawke, was Labor Premier of Western Australia for six years, from to

Bob Hawke attended Perth Modern School before going on to the Univers

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Hazel Hawke

First wife of Bob Hawke

Hazel Susan HawkeAO (née Masterson, 20 July &#;&#; 23 May ) was the first wife of Bob Hawke, the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. She married him in , and supported him throughout his prime ministership (–); they divorced in She worked in social policy areas, and was an amateur pianist and a patron of the arts. After she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she made public appearances in order to raise awareness of the disease.

Biography

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Hazel Masterson was born in Perth, Western Australia in She met her future husband Bob Hawke at a church fellowship in Perth. They married on 3 March They lived in Melbourne from to , including during his term as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (). Bob spent much of his time in Canberra after his election to Parliament in After he became prime minister on 11 March , the family lived in The Lodge in Canberra, until Hawke was replaced as prime minister by Paul Keating