News about Bob Hawke

A young Australian woman has spoken out about the hard truth of repaying student loans. She had no idea that her academic accomplishments would result in her racket of thousands in student loans by the age of 24, and she was wondering if she'd ever be able to pay it off.

Andrew Charlton, an MP for Parramatta's western Sydney seat, just purchased the four-bedroom Palm Beach prestige property, which is only 50 kilometers from the seat he represents as an investment property. It's Dr Charlton and his barrister wife Phoebe Arcus' second mansion purchase since he bought Fintry, a $16.1 million mansion in Sydney's east, in November 2020.

A Coalition MP who supports nuclear power has debunk the belief that uranium from reactors can be used to make atomic bombs, as well as the fact that coal plants are also flammable.

It's the real-life crime show that promises to reopen cold cases. And now under investigation host Liz Hayes, 67, has admitted that one community watch dog believes the show's crime busting reports have been "too bad." In a recent interview with TV Tonight, 'Crime Stoppers would like us to stop, almost because they're getting so many people calling them.'

Since a significant tax break was cancelled, treasurer Jim Chalmers' mid-year budget analysis revealed how a significant personal income tax windfall is propping up the Federal Budget. Dr Chalmers' mid-year budget outlook (MYEFO), released on Wednesday, is almost guaranteed to produce back-to-back surpluses with the Federal budget deficit forecast for this fiscal year cut to just $1.1 billion.

According to Dick Smith, Australia can establish a nuclear energy industry within six years, and former Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke reassured him of the benefits. I knew Bob Hawke well, he was definitely pro-nuclear, and he was definitely one of the few people who persuaded me to abandon nuclear activity,' he told Daily Mail Australia. He just used commonsense and logic.' Despite having plentiful gas reserves, the UAE began using nuclear energy in 2020.

John Brown, the former federal government minister of Australia, shared his extraordinary account of a debate between late leaders Thatcher and Bob Hawke (pictured together in Sydney this week). During a phone call with his UK counterpart regarding a British rugby tour of apartheid South Africa, Brown (pictured with Hawke, right) said the Australian Prime Minister flocked off the handle. (inset)

Younger Australians who owe their economic hardship to his generation have been chastised by a well-known author and Baby Boomer. Clive Hamilton, 70, and his sister Myra told readers that it has been "become a crime to be born in the 20 years following World War II," claiming that "generational warmongers" had their targets on Baby Boomers.

The increase of Australia's federal parliament to 200 MPs, up from the previous 151, is a step toward the acceptance of a controversial new plan. More MPs and senators are needed to ensure that the electoral system is made fairer for every Australian, according to the study committee, which was made up of current Labor, Greens, and independents.

Liz Hayes, a veteran journalist, has admitted that late Prime Minister Bob Hawke tried to woo her on several occasions. In a lengthy interview with Stellar magazine over the weekend, the journalist, 67, made the revelations. The politician called Hayes in 1991, just after her marriage to billionary John Singleton (and Hawke's prime ministership) came to an end, she came to a conclusion.

Bill Hayden, a former minister under Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke before becoming Australia's 21st governor general, died on Wednesday at the age of 90. Mr Hayden was the Labour leader from 1977 to 1983 before serving as foreign minister in Bob Hawke's government. Mr Hayden rose to become Australia's 21st governor-general, serving between 1989 and 1996.

Australians can now have long telehealth consultations with their doctor and be covered by Medicare for items other than Covid drugs. The changes may also address the doctor shortage. MyMedicare, according to Dr Stephen Duckett, an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who supervised the federal Department of Health and Ageing during the 1990s, will bring healthcare into the 21st century. 'The Covid pandemic dramatically changed our perceptions of telehealth and our desire to use it, both phone and video calls, and, when you think about it, this is now 2023 and we shouldn't need a health care service that is buried in 1950s with face-to-face care for everything.'

After a Yes activist told people waiting outside a Penrith, Sydney polling station that he had voted No (left), Mr Abbott was told he was on the wrong side of history. 'Always on the wrong side of history,' the heckler said. The former politician has vehemently opposed to the Voice, arguing that it would enshrine a sense of victimhood in Australia (right).

Despite the debt crisis, Victoria's newest Premier Jacinta Piper (left with his wife) has been charged with giving a fishing rod to school children. Labor was re-elected last year, and as part of a larger $96 million fishing package during a debt crisis, the state pledged to offer every school child in the state a fishing rod. This included a $1.5 million pledge to 'Little Angler Kits' to 'primary school-aged children' in every corner of the state.' The new Prime Minister's political career began the day before her 26th birthday in 1999 when Labor gained a swath of provincial seats. The ute-driving mother-of-two (right in 2013) has been described as a "very kind person."

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke had no family and ran up his 'Aussie ocker' to gain over voters, according to a recently declassified document. The harsh review was one of many by a senior British diplomat at the High Commission in Canberra in July, 1983, who wrote of high-profile Aussies. After swiftly rising through the ranks, second secretary John Russell wrote the book, Mr Hawke must have 'watch his back.'

Two representatives of Voice in Parliament have squabbled over the forthcoming referendum and its comparisons to a now defunct Indigenous advisory body.

Terri Cross, who suffered 18% interest rates as a single mother in the 1980s, claims she never bought a coffee and assumes that the youth will live in a safe suburb near the city. Retired school teacher Bruce Jackson, who bought a house in Albury for $60,000 in 1984,

When the ABC revived classic Parkinson programs to celebrate its 90th anniversary of broadcasting, it warned that some of what the legendary talk show discussed with his guests more than 40 years ago was no longer relevant. Sixteen of the 28 episodes of Parkinson In Australia, which aired between 1979 and 1982, were released on ABC's iView website: 'The following shows behaviour that is not consistent with current legislation and may offend some viewers.' Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, late media mogul Kerry Packer, and actor Paul Hogan appeared instalments to get the warning treatment. Parkinson interviewing Ita Buttrose, one of the allegedly offensive episodes, was all rated PG. Parkinson, 88, is photographed with his widow Mary.

Despite a rise in overseas arrivals, family reunions (Sydney airport, left) were the only immigration category to decline during the last financial year. For the first time in 25 years in the 2021-22 financial year, there had been more family members than skilled visas. The Department of Home Affairs has released additional information about overseas immigrants with visa status, which is expected to reach a record peak in the year to June 2023 (right) in Sydney's Wynyard train station.

During a speech to an Institute of Public Affairs function in Perth on Wednesday night, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott (left) invoked the terms MLK and Bob Hawke (inset), who explains why he was voting no. Mr Abbott said during the address, which resulted in a standing ovation, that he had enough of the victimhood that has firmly embedded in Australia. 'The past hasn't been faultless, but we can make the presenter and the future as good as we can,' he told the audience.'

Shane Oliver, the AMP chief economist, said that it would take a long time for Australia to reduce its immigration level (left: Sydney's Wynyard train station). After a rise in interest rates that resulted in an economic recession, this could be a repeat of the early 1990s. Since the late 1990s, net international migration has hit the six figures every year, with the exception of 2020 and 2021, which was closed, (Sydney's George Street, right). The Reserve Bank's (outgoing Governor Philip Lowe, inset) 12 rate hikes since May 2022 have been the most aggressive since 1989.

Linda Burney, the Indigenous Voice to Parliament's members, have slammed those who oppose the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, alleging that they are dividing Australia by "importing American-style Trump politics." As the discussion on the referendum moved to the Senate, Labour Minister Ed Miliband launched a scathing attack against the 'No' campaign. 'I'm afraid that the 'No' campaign is importing American style-Trump politics to Australia,' she said at a Canberra event for the Economic Development of Australia.

If you make less than $100,000, Australians living in such postcodes as Sydney (left), Melbourne (inset), or Perth (right). However, living in a wealthy suburb isn't enough to be one of the elite one per cent of earners. Anybody earning an average salary as a surgeon ($457,281) or an anaesthetist ($426,894) is automatically a member of a very wealthy group.

According to Jim Chalmers (centre and left with wife Laura) there is likely to be a deficit in the federal Budget on Tuesday night, which is a result of rising tax revenues from increased iron ore, coal and gas, and low unemployment. If confirmed, the Anthony Albanese-led government (right with his partner Jodie Haydon) would produce the first Budget surplus since 2007, when the Coalition was in control long before the Global Financial Crisis erupted. But it would also be the first federal Labor Budget in the black since 1989, when 18 percent interest rates during a period of high inflation led to a downturn two years later.