Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.
After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990. Hawke was defeated as Labor leader in a 1991 spill against Paul Keating. He is Labor's longest-serving Prime Minister and Australia's third-longest-serving Prime Minister.
Richard George Carleton (11 July 1943 – 7 May 2006) was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist.
Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduated from the University of New South Wales.
In the 1960s he was a reporter on This Day Tonight as well as being the presenter of State of the Nation, both on the ABC. He continued these roles until he left for a role on 2GB Radio in 1976, followed by what began as a lifelong love of travelling and researching overseas, producing films in Indonesia (including being the only journalist to be allowed to visit the newly "integrated" East Timor) and the Middle East.
Carleton joined the BBC in London in 1977 for the Tonight program, before returning to Australia in 1979. During 1986, Carleton was a co-presenter of The Carleton-Walsh Report on the ABC, with financial journalist Max Walsh.
Carleton ran for election in 1983 as the staff representative on the ABC Board. He was defeated by Tom Molomby, who wrote:
John Robert Hewson AM (born 28 October 1946) is an Australian economist, company director and a former politician. He was federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1990 to 1994 and led the party to defeat at the 1993 federal election.
Hewson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a working-class, politically conservative engineer. He was educated at Kogarah High School and then at the University of Sydney where he graduated in economics. He then gained a master's degree from the Regina campus of the University of Saskatchewan (which since 1974 has been the University of Regina) and a second master's and a doctorate in economics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1967 he married Margaret Deaves.
Returning to Australia, Hewson worked as an economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia. From 1976 to 1983 he was employed as an economic advisor to two successive Liberal treasurers; Phillip Lynch and John Howard. During this period he developed a keen interest in politics and was determined to enter politics himself. While a strong Liberal, he was critical of what he saw as the weakness and inconsistency of economic policy under Malcolm Fraser's government. He was a supporter of some of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher.
John Winston Howard, OM, AC, SSI, (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
Howard was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 to 2007, representing the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales. He served as Treasurer in the Fraser government of from 1977 to 1983. He was Leader of the Liberal Party and Coalition Opposition from 1985 to 1989, which included the 1987 federal election against Bob Hawke. He was re-elected as Leader of the Opposition in 1995.
Howard led the Liberal-National coalition to victory at the 1996 federal election, defeating Paul Keating's Labor government and ending a record 13 years of Coalition opposition. The Howard Government was re-elected at the 1998, 2001 and 2004 elections, presiding over a period of strong economic growth and prosperity. Major issues for the Howard Government included taxation, industrial relations, immigration, the Iraq war, and Aboriginal relations. Howard's coalition government was defeated at the 2007 election by the Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd. Howard also lost his own parliamentary seat at the election; he was the second Australian Prime Minister, after Stanley Bruce in 1929, to do so.
This nobody is about to catch a big somebody.
There are some nights you never forget.
Frank Sinatra: What's your name kid?::Rod Blue: Rod Blue from Wooloomooloo.
Frank Sinatra: I have an apology to make. I called this woman a $2 whore, I was wrong. She's not worth a buck and a half.
Frank Sinatra: I have an apology to make. To all the hookers out there, I compared them to the media.
Bob Hawke: [to Sinatra] You are what we call a 'tall poppy'. We have a way of dealing with tall poppies in this country: we cut their heads off!
Darling when we met
You were a pretty little thing
But your body started changing
When I gave you that ring
You’re supersizing, no exercising
Goodbye working out
A double meat with cheese, another helping please
Baby that’s what you’re all about
I pick you up in my pickup truck
But you had to ride in the back
I stopped off at the Sonic Burger
You ate everything in my sack
Darling please, won’t you please think of me
I’d love to have my baby back (baby back)
My baby back (baby back)
My baby back (baby back)
Six months have passed and you’ve gained 50 pounds
And I confess you got a real big rack
But the bad part is when I give you a hug
You got a two more on your back
You’re supersizing, no exercising
Goodbye working out
A double meat with cheese, another helping please
Baby that’s what you’re all about
I played football with the boys last night
And you were all time quarterback
But none of us could ever tackle you
Cause you’re built like a lumberjack
Darling please, won’t you please think of me
I’d love to have my baby back (baby back)
Put down the ribs (baby back)
My baby back (baby back)
And baby come back to me yeah
Papa Bakoye, Solama Bakoye!!
idjé, Itatoh Allah Man
Solama Bakoye, Papa Bakoye
Allah Si Di Idéou Man
Papa Bakoye, Solama Bakoye!!
idjé, Itatoh Allah Man
Solama Bakoye, Papa Bakoye
Allah Si Di Idéou Man
ika Ko Gnouma Miké Môgôh Ouyé
dan Téhola
ika Sêguê Kê Ni Môgôh Ouyé
dan Téhola
iki Iyêrê Djin, Ka Môgôh Mou Son
dan Téhola
iki Iyêrê Tôgnon, Ka Môgôh Mou Son
dan Téhola
bi Lé Séla, Obê Borila, Obê Borila, Obê Tounounan
Obê Borila, Obê Borila, Obê Tounounan
ni Sou Ka-Ko
Dibi Ka-Do Kiri Kiri Kiri Sini
téré Na Bôh...
lo'n Kadjan, Lo'n Kadjan wo, wo, wo, wo Assébaritê
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lolo Ni Béla Harisjinan
lolo Lé Bénan Harisjinan
lolo Ni Béla Harisjinan
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lolo Ni Béla Harisjinan
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lolo Ni Béla Harisjinan
Papa Bakoye, Solama Bakoye!!
idjé, Itatoh Allah Man
Solama Bakoye, Papa Bakoye
Allah Si Di Idéou Man
Papa Bakoye, Solama Bakoye!!
idjé, Itatoh Allah Man
Solama Bakoye, Papa Bakoye
Allah Si Di Idéou Man
(repeat until fade)
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