 HAWKE, Bob Member of Board of Directors, Boao Forum for Asia Former Prime Minister, Australia |
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Born on December 1929 at Boderrtown, South Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia, and Oxford University, served in Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 1970-1980. Joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1947 and was elected President of the ALP for the period 1973-1978, in 1980 elected to the Federal Parliament, and in February 1983 became the Leader of the Opposition; led the Labor Party to victory in the general election in March 1983 and became Australias longest serving Labor Prime Minister. He resigned from the Parliament in February 1992 and was made a Companion or the Order of Australia ACin 1979. As an Honorary Fellow at the University College of Oxford, was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Western Australia, and holds honorary Doctorates from Nanjing University of China; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the University of New South Wales and the University of South Australia; Current Council of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; Education International; Olympic Attache of the Olympic Council of Malaysia for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. |
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| HAWKE, Bob Member of Board of Directors, Boao Forum for Asia Former Prime Minister, Australia |
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