R.I.P. Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke

Comrades,

R.I.P. Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke. Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister 1983-1991. Died at Sydney, 16 May 2019 aged 89. A statesman, consumate politician, charismatic leader, national icon, history maker, showman, , scholar and gentleman. Legend and folk hero of the Australian Labor movement. Vale, Bob. You did us right. You will be remembered as you wished "I love Australia, and Australians."


Prime Minister, Bob Hawke and visiting General Secretary, Chinese Communist Party, Hu Yaobang arriving in Whyalla, South Australia, 1985.Photo: National Archives of Australia No.A8746, KN23/4/85/21.

Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke (r) in Moscow on an official visit to the Soviet Union to meet General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev, in 1987.Photo: Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Bob Hawke, during the 1983 Election Campaign before being elected to the first of four consecutive terms as Australian Prime Minister. Photo: Fairfax Media.

Former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, in 2018 aged 87. Photo: News Ltd.