Young Hawke by David Day review – a gritty, disturbing addition to former prime minister’s story
The childhood roots of Bob Hawke’s adult bad behaviour are carefully examined in this biography of the often lionised figure
March 2024
Looking back at Melbourne in the 60s and 70s – in pictures
Chris Lermanis is a keen amateur photographer who spent his weekends from the late 1960s to early 1970s photographing around the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy, Carlton and Collingwood with his Pentax SV camera and 50mm lens.He hand-processed the black and white films at home and made prints in the bathroom or laundry, which was temporarily converted into a darkroom. During this time the houses and factories were being demolished and the new housing commission towers built.Lermanis recently started looking at his old prints and now has a book project planned.
April 2023
Yunupingu, ‘the rock that stands against time’, leaves an indelible mark in struggle for Indigenous rights
Chips Mackinolty
Yunupingu, Yolŋu leader and campaigner for Indigenous rights, dies aged 74
December 2022
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Police say stabbing murder investigation could take weeks – as it happened
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August 2022
Grogonomics
The stage three tax cuts are a pile of garbage, and everybody knows it
Greg Jericho
Cringe or cool: politicians who surprised us with their human side – video
July 2022
John Curtin hotel’s survival hopes buoyed by Victorian heritage win
Pub with links to Bob Hawke recommended for heritage register in ‘vital step’ towards saving it from redevelopment
June 2022
Katharine Murphy on politics
Anthony Albanese shows he’s a big-picture empath – more like Hawke than Rudd or Gillard
Katharine Murphy
In these opening weeks, the new prime minister is drawing on Labor songlines from the 1980s and 90s
February 2022
‘We just can’t let go’: sadness as Bob Hawke’s watering hole, the Curtin hotel, set to close
Time called for Melbourne pub named after another Labor PM and favourite of unionists, students, journos and more recently live music fans
August 2021
Who was Australia’s best prime minister? Experts rank the winners and dunces
How does Scott Morrison’s leadership compare with his 29 predecessors? Though longevity is important, what a leader does with office counts more to the experts
July 2021
Secret embassy cables cast the Bob Hawke legend in a different light
Jeff Sparrow
Papers show Hawke as a unionist said one thing to his members, and something quite different to his US embassy friends
April 2021
Deaths inside
Thirty years on, I sense the same storm brewing around Aboriginal deaths in custody
Pat Dodson
When I worked on the royal commission, distrust of police and prisons ran deep. The situation today is worse, and political resolve is lacking
November 2020
The Crown is right that Bob Hawke was a republican. But aspects of his portrayal are preposterous
Stephen Mills
The Crown ridiculed: Bob Hawke did not call the Queen a pig, or a pom – he was better than that
July 2020
John Ah Kit: leader and tireless advocate for Aboriginal rights dies aged 69
Family of Jawoyn leader and first Aboriginal minister in the Northern Territory parliament says his life ‘should be the focus of celebration’
January 2020
Woodford folk festival review – a much-needed moment of positivity and reprieve
Woodford, Queensland Despite dodging the brunt of the extreme weather, attendees at the 34th annual folk festival had the future on their minds
December 2019
Bob Hawke’s daughter says he told her not to pursue rape allegations against former Labor MP
Rosslyn Dillon made allegations as part of legal challenge against her father’s estate
November 2019
Remembering Bob Hawke and the Australia that was: 'We were mourning more than Dad'
In an extract from her new book, Sue Pieters-Hawke recounts her father’s last years – ‘a distilling of essence’
August 2019
Bob Hawke auction: true believers and bargain hunters do battle for belongings
At an odd mix of memorial and garage sale, greatest demand is for objects the people’s PM might have cared about
