Bob Hawke skulls a beer at the SCG Australia vs India Jan 4 2012- 1 for the country by Glenn Brandon on YouTube. Not everyone loved him, of course. Some viewed him as arrogant, sexist, even obnoxious.

Bob Hawke, one of Australia’s longest-serving Prime Ministers and a champion of the trade union movement, has died peacefully at the age of 89.

The affair between Bob Hawke and Blanche d’Alpuget was once the most scandalous in Australian political history, but it morphed into one of the nation’s greatest love stories.

Bob Hawke, a former Australian prime minister who evolved from a mischievous union leader into a gray-haired statesman, spearheading a center-left agenda that made him one of the most popular and ...

Bob Hawke, Australia’s hugely popular prime minister from 1983 to 1991, who presided over wrenching changes that integrated his nation into the global economy and strengthened ties with Asia ...

Australia’s longest-serving Labor Party prime minister, Bob Hawke, died on Thursday, aged 89. Hawke, who served as the country’s premier from 1983 to 1991, became known as a folk hero in ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Bob Hawke, Australia’s longest-serving Labor Party prime minister, whose charisma and powers of persuasion earned him near-folk hero status among many Australians, died ...

Charles Wooley was a star 60 Minutes reporter when he asked newly separated former prime minister Bob Hawke and his then lover Blanche d'Alpuget a question neither of them wanted to answer.

Bob Hawke, one of Australia’s longest-serving Prime Ministers and a champion of the trade union movement, has died peacefully at the age of 89.