Bob Hawke

Just passed I heard.

Great Labor leader.

Floated the dollar.

Was there in the roaring 1980s.

CGT, FBT.

Americas Cup.

Had a few drinks.

 

Aaaaargh RIP

Any boss who doesn't give you a day off for his funeral is a bum.

 

Good ol' Bob. A real person.
Now that's popular!
(Franklin River Dam didn't stand a snowflake's).

 

As good a reason to have a beer as any I guess.

 

I thought that he was a Rhodes Scholar - that's more than a pass

 

Nooo! I’m devastated. A great visionary. He was not afraid to enact change. We need gutsy politicians like that.

 

I think a Labor victory has now been assured.

 

I hate to say it, but that is what sprang to mind for me, although Billy B Bag is not worthy of getting any light from him, 2 different people...

Hawke prob could have become a Lib leader these days

RIP, I liked him.

 

Thank the lord social media and mobiles etc were not everywhere, or he would have been impeached ?

 

Before my time, but undoubtedly one of the greatest PMs the country has ever had. History has and will be kind to Bob Hawke for his many accomplishments.

And if you want an example of the complete opposite - an absolute **** stain who never deserved to be PM - simply treat yourself to Tony Abbott's statement in response to Hawke's death. The man is an absolute disgrace...

 

RIP Bob Hawke.

And a Rhodes Scholar to boot which is kinda weird. But I understand he ddin't shoot the lights out. Almost bombed on the moral and political philosophy exam.

 

I do miss having a prime minister who had the balls to do what needed to be done - but also had the larrikin ability to relate, and sell the policy, to the people ... admittedly he wouldn't have been as effective without Keating as his foil

 

Funny how history gets rewritten and people forget the past and fall for the same old lines. Does any-one remember Hawkes election promises ? No child will live in poverty or his conning of the enviromentalists, the saving of the Great Barrier Reef. The billion trees he was going to plant and save the environment . Committees were formed to spend all the promised money. End of story. No funding available. Deja vu !

 

Well, he was a politician, and they prob cannot always do everything.

I agree people have short memories, we had Bowen questioning Morrison on poor border protection this week....I mean..like...

I do wish it was someone like Hawke that looked like they were about to take the top job right now.

I also do think Morrison has the ability to understand the average person, but all politicians are too far removed and gagged by political correctness and social media these days.

TBH Hawke probably would have been booted if his time was playing out now, so that shows what a mess we are in, trying to manipulate outcomes and having a very small box you must fit in before getting to the top.

We do not have people like Hawke anymore, or those before him, because we do not allow them to exist as they are coming through.

I am sure he would have thought about these things too.

But either way, you can't take away from him, he was well liked, I can see why, and he no doubt did love his country and it's people, he wanted to be remembered that way, and I think he did earn that, even if you disagree with some of what he did or believed.

 

Asides from the "child poverty" comment - that he said was his biggest regret - it's quite startling to realise what Bob Hawke did achieve as he set the the foundations for the strong country we are today:

- bought in Medicare
- Superannuation
- floated the dollar
- deregulated the financial sector
- a key figure in brokering end of apartheid in Sth Africa
- brokered the wages accord with unions
- dismantled the tariff system
- privatised non-government based industries
- reformed the tax system
- introduced student allowances and family benefits
- set up HECS
- united Australia for all Australian's
- created Landcare
- protected Antarctica from mining, banned uranium mining in Kakadu, saved the Franklin River and Daintree Rainforest
- changed the the national anthem from God save the Queen
- a zillion other small achievements on local levels (like instigating the significant foreshore redevelopment in Newcastle)
... and was a larrikin to boot

 

Bob Hawke sells Northbridge home

It's all about timing - they would have settled a couple of weeks ago (end April or early May) and cleaned out his bank accounts otherwise if the property hasn't settled there may be some issues. @Terry_w.

 

did you capture that pic, or repost? Quick work from whoever did it...