Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke to leave hospital after 'monitoring'
Stephanie Gardiner Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke is expected to be released from a Sydney hospital after being treated for pneumonia.
Former PM Bob Hawke reportedly in hospital
THE former prime minister Bob Hawke is reportedly being treated for pneumonia in St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Sydney.
Bob Hawke on the campaign trail
Former prime minister Bob Hawke hits the campaign trail on behalf of the Labor party.
The case for the positive
Michael Gordon Regular consumers of television or online news over the past 12 months could be excused for thinking that Tony Abbott, possesses just one solitary tie, the pale blue one you see him wearing whenever...
Gillard meets Hawke in China
Former prime minister Bob Hawke says he's always got words of encouragement for Julia Gillard.
New database shows US informants were inside Whitlam's ALP
Philip Dorling Bob Carr might have been Foreign Affairs Minister for only 12 months but he started talking to US diplomats about internal Labor politics nearly 40 years ago.
Leaders and battle-scarred Negus recall resolve
Tony Wright Australia's political leaders were effusive in their praise for the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher but the veteran television journalist George Negus recalled her as being ''as scary...
Hero returns for a view of green history
'This is pretty well pure rainforest,'' notes Bob Brown as the seaplane sweeps over the junction of the Gordon and Franklin rivers, deep in remote south-west Tasmania.
Hanging by a thread: how the river was won
''This is pretty well pure rainforest,'' notes Bob Brown as the seaplane sweeps over the junction of the Gordon and Franklin rivers, deep in remote south-west Tasmania.
Hawke bucks party power
Ross Peake Former prime minister Bob Hawke has proposed that Federal Parliament have a free vote on significant issues.
The river runs free and wild
Andrew Darby The shaggy tea-trees on Rock Island are still there: exactly the same trees, little changed in a generation.
The king of the spivs
Tony Wright Labor politicians across the country are sweating on the NSW corruption hearings.
Poll lends weight to anti-state push
Ross Peake The Beyond Federation group is stepping up a campaign to abolish the states and territories, with the release of a poll showing 78 per cent of respondents are in favour of territory and state laws...
Prime Minister to make guest appearance at Woodford
Amy Remeikis JULIA GILLARD is expected to become a last-minute headliner of the Woodford Folk Festival on Sunday.
Following in the footsteps of power
James Button's tale of being a PM's words man is also a memoir of his famous father.
How the Hawke-Keating team unravelled over tax
Damien Murphy The beginning of the end of a beautiful friendship between prime minister Bob Hawke and treasurer Paul Keating in 1985 is revealed in cabinet documents released by the National Archives.
Enemy within still the danger: Turnbull
Phillip Coorey MALCOLM TURNBULL has portrayed himself as the antithesis of Tony Abbott's political mentor, B.A. Santamaria, the staunch protectionsist and founder of the Democratic Labor Party.
Australia's fortune cookie?
Daniel Flitton Forty years ago this month, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam made the controversial decision to recognise China's communist government. Has the relationship prospered?
Hawke tipped to 'roast' press gallery reunion
Ross Peake Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke will be reunited with his former adversaries from the press gallery in a special event being organised for Canberra's birthday long weekend.
