Published: May 17, 2019
Australia must turn its back on a decade of obscene squabbling and unshackle itself from a carbon intensive economy
It’s been profoundly obvious since the news of Bob Hawke’s death late on Thursday night that Australians are not only mourning the passing of a larger-than-life national figure, they are also mourning a lost political era.
The Hawke brand in Australian politics is a powerful bit of shorthand. Hawke was a political leader with the self-confidence to transform a country, and to execute that transformation by decanting the talent of his cabinet colleagues while remaining in full command of his institution.
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