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Life Summary

Name	Robert James Hawke
Born	9 December, 1929 Bordertown, South Australia, Australia
Died	16 May, 2019 (aged 89) Northbridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious Influence	Agnostic Congregational Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hawke, Hazel (wife) Gietzelt, Ray (friend) Abeles, Peter (friend) Wright, John David (friend) Leibler, Isi Joseph (friend) Sinclair, Jean Dorothy (employee) Macdonald, Alexander (work colleague) Johnson, Leslie Royston (work colleague) Fitzgibbon, Charles Henry (colleague) Ducker, John Patrick (colleague) Crean, Simon Findlay (colleague) Freudenberg, Graham (associate) Yunupingu (related entry) Yeend, Geoffrey John (public servant)
Education *	Perth Modern School (student, 1943-1946) University of Western Australia (student, 1947-1952) Oxford University (student, 1953-1955) Australian National University (student, 1956-1958)
Occupation or Descriptor *	industrial arbitration advocate (1958-1970) Victoria, Australia trade union official (1970-1980) Victoria, Australia labour politician (1980-1992) Federal, Australia Member of Lower House (1980-1992) Federal, Australia opposition leader (1983-1983) Federal, Australia prime minister (1983-1991) Federal, Australia business executive (1992-2005) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Rhodes Scholar (recipient, 1952) Father of the Year (Vic) (recipient, 1971) Companion of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1979)
Key Events *	Sam Cohen memorial lecture (presenter, 1971)
Legacies *	Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre (University of South Australia) (eponym) Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library (University of South Australia) (eponym) Hawke Research Institute (University of South Australia) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Labor Club (University of Western Australia) (member) Australian National University (administration) (council member, 1956-1958)
Political Activism *	ALP (Vic) (member) ALP (federal) (president, 1973-1978) ALP (life member, 2009-2019)
Workplaces *	ACTU (advocate, 1958) ACTU (president, 1969-1980)

* Dates are approximate