Sustained debates over system design produced increasingly technical arguments over levies, administration, and the role of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered at Australia's Sydney Opera House on Friday as a state memorial honoured former prime minister Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing ...

It was the big-picture reform that defined the Labor prime minister Bob Hawke and infuriated his opponents with its radical promise of a fairer, healthier society. Medicare, Australia’s ...

Exclusive: The widow of Bob Hawke has described in detail how she planned to murder him several years before he became prime minister. Blanche d'Alpuget, a successful author, had already decided to ...

Bob Hawke, one of Australia’s longest-serving Prime Ministers and a champion of the trade union movement, has died peacefully at the age of 89. Known affectionately by his nickname, “Hawkie” was ...

Bob Hawke was one of Australia’s most influential political figures, serving as the country’s 23rd Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991. A charismatic and affable leader, Hawke rose to prominence as a ...