Bob Hawke
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"Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke" is an Australian Politics of Australia/politician who was the List of Prime Ministers of Australia/23rd Prime Minister of Australia and the Australian Labor Party/Leader of the Labor Party from Australian federal election, 1983/1983 to Australian Labor Party leadership spill, December 1991/1991. After a decade as Australian Council of Trade Unions/President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he was elected to the Parliament of Australia/House of Representatives as the Labor MP for Division of Wills/Wills in Australian federal election, 1980/1980. Three years later, he led Labor to a Australian federal election, 1983/landslide election victory and was sworn in as Prime Minister. He led Labor to victory at three more elections in Australian federal election, 1984/1984, Australian federal election, 1987/1987 and Australian federal election, 1990/1990, thus making him the most successful Labor Leader in history. Hawke was eventually replaced by Paul Keating at the end of Australian Labor Party leadership spill, December 1991/1991. He remains to date Labor's longest-serving Prime Minister, Australia's List of Prime Ministers of Australia by time in office/third-longest-serving Prime Minister, and is currently the oldest living former Prime Minister.

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The Chinese are definitely concerned about the tendency of this Australian government to align itself with the United States.

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Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

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This is a fight which you cannot lose, you must not lose -- we must win it if Australia is to remain the country we think it is.

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There's a general consensus from this conference that China and its growth is not a threat but a tremendous opportunity.

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I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

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It is an assault upon the very core of what generations of our citizens have been proud to boast of, at home and abroad, as the essence of the Australian character -- the .

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There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

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It's pomposity gone mad.

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