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Bob Hawke, recently celebrated his 80th birthday. The former Labor Prime Minister of Australia was Australia’s 23rd Prime Minister and the country’s longest serving Labor Party Prime Minister.
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Throughout his political career, Bob Hawke welcomed a number of the world’s most fascinating and influential people to Australia. This included Princess Diana when she visited Canberra in 1983.
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Bob Hawke welcomed Pope John Paul II during his Papal tour of Australia in 1986.
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Bob Hawke welcomed Queen Elizabeth II to Australia alongside his wife Blanche and John Howard at the Opening Ceremony for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Bob Hawke with Margaret Thatcher at the Australian War Memorial in 1988.
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Bob Hawke faces the media scrum during his 1987 Labor Campaign. He held his postion from 1983 to 1991.
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Bob married Blanche D’Alpuget in 1995 at a ceremony in Sydney.
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After only being in politics for three years Bob became Prime Minister of Australia. He went on to achieve the very unlikely position of winning four consecutive federal elections.