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126. Hawke’s youngest daughter Rosslyn was …: d’Alpuget, Robert J. Hawke, Schwartz, 1982, p. 194.
127. Joh also told Police …: Metcalf, ‘Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen had secret deal with police ahead of 1971 Springbok tour protest’, Courier Mail, 28 February 2013, http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sir-joh-bjelke-petersen-had-secret-deal-with-police-ahead-of-1971-springbok-tour-protest/news-story/d0d8fe62bb09fa800463e895dfe4778f
127. ‘The police took Joh at his … ’: User 1735099, ‘1971 Springbok Tour’, kevgillett.net, 1 March 2013, http://www.kevgillett.net/?p=7354
134. In l990, the Investor Responsibility…: Wren, ‘As Mandela Stumps for Sanctions, South Africa Debates Them’, New York Times, 30 June 1990, http://www.nytimes.eom/1990/06/30/world/as-mandela-stumps-for-sanctions-south-africa-debates-them.html
134–5. ‘The whole process was self-reinforcing …’: Evans, Nelson Mandela Day Address, Government House, Sydney, 17 July 2012, http://www.gevans.org/speeches/speech475.html
140. A secret CIA report from…: Stewart, ‘CIA secret assessment: Bob Hawke brash, Gareth Evans brilliant’, The Australian, 24 May 2016, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/cia-secret-assessment-bob-hawke-brash-gareth-evans-brilliant/news-story/c0a99ae52b51827c0d0515505db673ec
144. ‘Hawke snarled back: ‘I was …’: Evans, Inside the Hawke Government: A Cabinet Diary, Melbourne University Press.
165. I read aloud Beck’s remarks…: Beck, as quoted in ‘Beck Tries Out Decency’, The New Yorker, 14 November 2016, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/ll/14/glenn-beck-tries-out-decency
168. ‘Nuclear power would be a …’: Kinninment, ‘Bob Hawke pushes nuclear power at Woodford Folk Festival north of Brisbane’, ABC News, 28 December 2016.
170. A viability analysis by the …: ‘Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission Report’, Government of South Australia, May 2016, https://yoursay.sa.gov.au/system/NFCBC_FinaLBeport_Web.pdf
185. In an article for The Australian… ’: Keating, ‘Paul Keating: Libs are making it up’, The Australian, 26 June 2007, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/paul-keating-libs-are-making-it-up/news-story/300a6a00685167e50e8442bccc0b3249?nk=8fe2f2166e25b28bba822c2084def0f3-1507450809
192. The right-wing columnist Andrew Bolt…: Bolt, ‘The ultimate Labor party’, Herald Sun, 11 December 2009.
192. ‘I was certainly not offended…’: Staff reporter, ‘Little Johnnie strips for Hawke’s birthday bash’, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December 2009.
192. Hawke uses the occasion to…: AAP, ‘Bob Hawke conferred honorary degree from Sydney University’, The Australian, 9 December 2016.
193–6. ‘It’s a tremendous privilege to …’: Shorten quoted in AAP, ‘Bob Hawke conferred honorary degree from Sydney University’, The Australian, 9 December 2016.
199. Louis Pratt, the only child…: d’Alpuget, On Longing, Melbourne University Press, 2008, p. 17.
211. [He] was treated like a grandee …: d’Alpuget Robert J. Hawke, Schwartz, 1982, p. 194.
214. ‘Because I still have a … ’: Hawke, ‘The 1990-1991 Cabinet – transcript’, National Archives of Australia, http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/cabinet/by-year/1990-1991/transcript-1990-91-cabinet.aspx
215. Richo responded by saying it…: ‘Cabinet papers 1990-91: Richardson rejects Hawke ministry claims’, The Australian, 1 January 2016.
219. ‘Diplomatic cables from the Canadian …’: Korski, ‘Embassy Feared 1989 Chinese Raid Say Confidential Memos’, 26 January 2015, https://www.blacklocks.ca/embassy-feared-1989-chinese-raid-say-confldential-memos.’
220. Perceived by party leader Deng Xiaoping…: d’Alpuget, Hawke The Prime Minister, Melbourne University Press, 2010, p. 137.
221. In 2003, Monash University’s director…: Banham, ‘Children of the revolution’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 December 2003, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/25/1072308628745.html
224. Four years later, Snedden would…: Robinson, ‘Sir Billy and son “shared mystery lover’”, News.com, http://www.news.com.au/national/sir-billy-and-son-shared-mystery-lover/news-story/Ic6084d46c09d0fl3bb3ec96f0d06701)
225–7. He’s popular among the Chinese …: d’Alpuget, Hawke The Prime Minister, Melbourne University Press, 2010, p. 124.
241. ‘His polling shows that there …’: Hawke, 25 August 1988, https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34568
243. Tell me about the report…: Garnaut, ‘Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendancy’, 1989.
252. In 1961, aged seventeen, Blanche …: d’Alpuget, ‘Lust’, taken from Eleven Deadly Sins by Ross Fitzgerald, Heinemann Australia, 1993.
253. ‘I had had many lovers …’: d’Alpuget, On Longing, Melbourne University Press, 2008, p. 15.
254. The pair met in Melbourne …: ibid, p. 21.
274. As one fellow student recalled … : d’Alpuget, Robert J. Hawke, Schwartz, 1982, p. 38.
283. According to Keating now … : Bramston, Paul Keating: The Big Picture Leader, Scribe Publishing, 2016, pp 309–10.
286. In one, from the Financial Review … : Dunn, ‘Hawke wavers on Antarctic treaty’, Australian Financial Review, 5 May 1989.
Grateful acknowledgement is given to Bob Hawke for permission to reproduce material from The Hawke Memoirs (Heinemann, 1994), as well as speeches, articles and interviews.
Grateful acknowledgement is also given to Blanche d’Alpuget for permission to reproduce material from Robert J. Hawke (Schwartz, 1982), ‘Lust’ from Eleven Deadly Sins (Heinemann, 1993), On Longing (MUP, 2008), Hawke: The Prime Minister (MUP, 2010) and The Young Lion (HarperCollins, 2013).
Extracts from On Longing and Hawke: The Prime Minister by Blanche d’Alpuget reproduced with permission of Melbourne University Publishing.
Extracts from Robert J. Hawke by Blanche d’Alpuget reproduced with permission of Schwartz and Black Inc Books.
Grateful acknowledgement is given to the Honourable Paul Keating for permission to reproduce the extract on page 35 from ‘Paul Keating: The Libs are making it up’, published in The Australian.
Extract on page 54 taken from Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Grateful acknowledgement is given to Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC for permission to reproduce his Nelson Mandela Day Address on pages 134–135.
Grateful acknowledgement is given to the Honourable Bill Shorten MP for permission to reproduce the speech on pages 193–196.
Extract on pages 214–215 from the 1990-1991 Cabinet transcript, reproduced by permission of the National Archives of Australia.
Extract on page 221 taken from ‘Children of the revolution’ published by the Sydney Morning Herald, reproduced by permission of Cynthia Banham and Fairfax Media Limited.
Extract on page 283 from Paul Keating: The Big Picture Leader by Troy Bramston reproduced by permission of the author and Scribe Publications.
About Bob Hawke and Derek Rielly
Bob Hawke was born in Bordertown, South Australia in 1929. He joined the Labour Party in 1947 and, after a decade as ACTU president, became party leader in 1983. Soon after, he was elected as the 23rd prime minister of Australia. Hawke went on to win four federal elections between 1983-91, becoming the longest serving Labor PM in history. At 87, Robert J Hawke is Australia’s oldest living prime minister – and inarguably our most popular.
Derek Rielly is a journalist born in Perth and based in Sydney. He is the son of a pro-wrestler father and diplomat mother, and the co-founder of Stab magazine and BeachGrit.com. Derek worked as a blackjack dealer and bartender before becoming a full-time writer.
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