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Hawke : the Prime Minister / Blanche d'Alpuget.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
994.063092 HAW	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .
B 994.064 HAWK	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
Name	D'Alpuget, Blanche, 1944-
Title	Hawke : the Prime Minister / Blanche d'Alpuget.
Published	Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, c2010
Description	xiv, 401 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col), ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-381) and index.
Notes	Biography: p. 380-381.
Summary	Robert James Lee Hawke first came to prominence as a union wages advocate, and as President of the ACTU from 1970 to 1980 he was a master negotiator and peacemaker in industrial life. He agitated for social and economic reforms, becoming a folk hero and the most popular Australian of his time. He led the Labor Party to victory in the general election of March 1983 and, in winning three successive elections, became Australia's longest-serving Labor Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, Hawke would preside over some of the most influential economic reforms modern Australia had ever seen: floating the Australian dollar and deregulating the Australian financial system. This biography takes us through the successive governments until Hawke's resignation from Parliament in February 1992.
Subjects	Hawke, Bob, -- 1929-2019
	Australian Labor Party
	Prime ministers -- Australia -- Biography
	Australia -- Politics and government -- 1976-1990
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australia -- Politics and government -- 1976-1990 . Australian Labor Party . Hawke, Bob, -- 1929-2019 . Prime ministers -- Australia -- Biography . Authors: D'Alpuget, Blanche, 1944- .