Bob Hawke

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  1. datto

    datto Well-Known Member

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    Hawke reintroduced Medicare. Gough first brought it in during his term. Gough also withdrew from the Vietnam war, brought in the 17.5% leave loading for workers and introduced Free University.
     
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    I captured it. As soon as I heard the news I was on Wiki. It didn't take long for the comments to disappear.
     
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    Many years ago, I knew a guy who was very high up in a major company. This was when Hawke was still ACTU president. The guy I knew was very right wing, though he really respected Hawkey, and the compromises he was able to reach between the unions and management.

    This was a time when strikes were really common.

    This guy died before Hawke became PM.
     
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    Getting a bit desperate when they have to bump off one of their own to get the sympathy vote? :oops:
     
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    Remember, this is politics. From the dawn of mankind, human sacrifices have been made to further others.
     
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    It is the Bear Pit after all.
     
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    I think one of his greatest achievements was work in increasing the high school retention rate. When he entered office the high school completion rate for students was 30%, and by his departure this had risen to 70%.

     
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    Very reflective of several structural changes in the economy - high youth unemployment, restructuring (loss) of our secondary industry base which sucked up many apprentices, opening up of more places at Uni (thus becoming an essential prior to gaining employment & delaying youth hitting the statistics), introduction of HECS.
     
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    The 17.5% I remember was the interest I was paying on my mortgage :( maybe that was to offset the leave loading?)
     
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    ^^^^ you had it too good Anthony.
     
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    I liked Bob Hawke as a PM but was too young to know what was really going on. In hindsight, Hawke / Keating partnership was the best in my lifetime so far and it doesn't seem to be improving.

    Is 60 years of drinking beer > 80 years of teatotalling?
     
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