The new Canberra buzzword: anti-non-decoupling – Crikey

Bob Hawke : “The fact is that Australia has some of the geologically safest places in the world to act as a repository for nuclear waste.” As of 2005, nuclear power provided 2.1% of the world’s energy and 15% of the world’s electricity, … [...]

Paul Howes' u-propaganda is radioactive – Crikey

When Bob Hawke gave the green light to another uranium mine in the 80′s, he gave the ‘middle finger’ to the hard working and committed members of the ALP – I never went to another meeting, nor did I work on a polling booth again! … [...]

If Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd had been journos

Bob Hawke , Paul Keating, John Howard and Kevin Rudd all fancy themselves as better journos than the real thing, says George Megalogenis. But how would each have really fared if they’d chosen the Fourth Estate over the Third? [...]

Rudd or Turnbull — who's right on the GFC? – Crikey

Here was much reminiscing about he bad old days of opposition and how good it was to be in government, and a wave of nostalgia as Bob Hawke took the stage to receive his well-merited life membership badge. … [...]

Unions' GFC response stuck in the 70s – Crikey

Australia’s union movement has not developed intellectually in the past 30 years, despite the parliamentary Labor Party under Bob Hawke realising twenty years ago the need for an open, competitive Australian economy and the urgency of … [...]

Whatever happens to the ETS, it represents colossal failure – Crikey

The second is the bill gets rejected twice, and the Prime Minister decides to not make the serious but non-fatal mistake his predecessors John Howard and Bob Hawke made, and go to an early election. There’s no ETS, good, … [...]

How does Rudd's popularity stack up? – Crikey

As for Kevin Rudd, his uneven progress complicates the earlier picture of an all-conquering hero to rival Bob Hawke . [...]

US 08: Hillary, Hawke and the power of tearful eyes – Crikey

When you worked for Bob Hawke you soon realised that a choking voice and a tear or two was no disqualification to winning votes, writes Richard Farmer. [...]