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Bob Hawke Bob Hawke i(A62533 works by) (birth name: Robert James Lee Hawke)
Born: Established: 9 Dec 1929 Bordertown, Bordertown - Keith area, South East South Australia, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 16 May 2019 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 4 y separately published work icon Wednesdays with Bob Derek Rielly , Bob Hawke , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2017 12320599 2017 single work biography

'On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke - Australia's 23rd and oldest living prime minister - has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the charismatic old master talk life, death, love, sex, religion, politics, sport ... and everything in between.

On other days, to paint his subject's enigma from the outside, Rielly interviews Hawke's 'Liberal MP rival John Howard, Labor allies Gareth Evans and Kim Beazley, wife and lover Blanche d'Alpuget, live-in stepson Louis Pratt, and friends - diplomat Richard Woolcott, economist Ross Garnaut, advertising guru John Singleton, and longtime mate Col Cunningham.

'The result is an extraordinary portrait of a beloved Australian - a strange, funny, uniquely personal study of Bob Hawke ruminating on his (and our) past, present and future.' (Introduction)
1 Priorities Bob Hawke , 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: True Blue? : On Being Australian 2008; (p. 186)
2 4 y separately published work icon The Hawke Memoirs Bob Hawke , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994 Z1778814 1994 single work autobiography
1 Shiny Brass Coffin Handles Bob Hawke , 1986 single work prose
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories , no. 13 1986; (p. 1-3)
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