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Hawke - From Larrikin to Legend
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Sun 26 Oct 10:30 AM
Senate Chamber | Museum of Australian Democracy Old Parliament House
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Bob Hawke was at the epicentre of a 1980s Australia undergoing rapid economic, social and geopolitical change. The nation had never had a Prime Minister like him – loveable, charismatic, a Rhodes scholar, but with all-too-human foibles and a difficult family life. Through a massive era of reform, from Medicare to the Union Accords, he maintained an unprecedented level of popularity, running a Cabinet of determined doers and unique characters.
Following last year's popular Festival session exploring Hawke‘s early years, come along to hear from biographer David Day, as he continues Hawke’s journey in conversation with Australian political, cultural and labour historian, Frank Bongiorno. Why is the man called Hawkie regarded by all sides of politics as one of Australia's most important and influential PMs?
David Day has written more than twenty books to great acclaim, both in Australia and overseas. Apart from eight political biographies, including prize-winning biographies of John Curtin and Ben Chifley, he has written several books about the Second World War and others on Antarctica. His landmark history of Australia, Claiming a Continent, won the South Australian Festival Prize for Non-Fiction, while his book Conquest: How societies overwhelm others has been translated into several languages. A graduate of Melbourne and Cambridge universities, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, he has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, a visiting fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge, a professor of history at University College Dublin, a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, and a visiting fellow at the University of Aberdeen. He has served as the official historian of the Australian Customs Service and the Bureau of Meteorology, and been an Australian Research Council senior research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he is currently based.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.
Following last year's popular Festival session exploring Hawke‘s early years, come along to hear from biographer David Day, as he continues Hawke’s journey in conversation with Australian political, cultural and labour historian, Frank Bongiorno. Why is the man called Hawkie regarded by all sides of politics as one of Australia's most important and influential PMs?
David Day has written more than twenty books to great acclaim, both in Australia and overseas. Apart from eight political biographies, including prize-winning biographies of John Curtin and Ben Chifley, he has written several books about the Second World War and others on Antarctica. His landmark history of Australia, Claiming a Continent, won the South Australian Festival Prize for Non-Fiction, while his book Conquest: How societies overwhelm others has been translated into several languages. A graduate of Melbourne and Cambridge universities, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, he has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, a visiting fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge, a professor of history at University College Dublin, a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, and a visiting fellow at the University of Aberdeen. He has served as the official historian of the Australian Customs Service and the Bureau of Meteorology, and been an Australian Research Council senior research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he is currently based.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.