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The Hon Robert Hawke AC
The Hon Robert Hawke AC
The Hon Robert Hawke AC
The Right Honourable Robert Hawke AC was Prime Minister of
Australia from 1983 to 1991. After graduating from the University
of Western Australia, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford
University. On returning to Australia he worked for the Australian
Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and was ACTU President from
1970-1980. Bob Hawke was elected to Federal Parliament in 1980 and
became Prime Minister in 1983. He resigned from Parliament in
February 1992, having been Australia's longest serving Labor PM.
Current honorary positions include: Member of the Board of Advisers
of the Boao Forum for Asia; Chairman, The Hawke Research Institute
Advisory Board; Chairman, Trade Union Education Foundation; Member
of the Advisory Board, Deliberative Issues Australia; and Patron of
Indigenous Engineering Aid.