Hawke was our larrikin, but also our reformer
- Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Bob Hawke will be remembered variously as Labor’s longest and Australia’s third-longest serving prime minister, as a union leader, and a larrikin.
But most of all, he will be remembered as a reformer -— presiding over a set of economic reforms that modernised the Australian economy and set the stage for the prosperity of the last...
