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The Hawke government supported his bid to become Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, but it proved unsuccessful.
He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer of the government of Bob Hawke, which came to power at the 1983 election.
The incoming Hawke Labor government only learned about the extent of the deficit when briefed by Treasury officials after the election.
Keating was one of the driving forces behind the various microeconomic reforms of the Hawke government.
The spy heroes were independent of government ; MacGyver works for a non-profit, private think tank, and aviator Hawke and two friends work free-lance adventures.
* 1985 – Capital gains tax was introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke / Keating government.
In this role he played a key role in negotiating agreements on wages and other industrial issues with the Labor government of Bob Hawke.
In 1766 Hawke joined the government of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | William Pitt as First Lord of the Admiralty, a post he heldfor the next five years.
Under the nominally centre-left Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996, the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating governments pursued many economic policies associated with economic rationalism, such as floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, heavy restrictions on union activities including on strike action and pattern bargaining, the privatisation of government run services and enterprises such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and wholesale deregulation of the banking system.
To get access to Airwolf, Archangel offers Hawke protection from other government agencies who will try to recover Airwolf in exchange for flying missions of national importance for the Firm.
" Early episodes frequently detailed the efforts of the United States government to secure Airwolf from Hawke who is officially charged with having stolen it.
Fraser's government was defeated in the March 1983 election by the Labor Party under Bob Hawke.
Although Hawke's government was in political trouble, with record high interest rates and a financial crisis in Victoria, Peacock failed to defeat Hawke at the 1990 election.
Under an unsuccessful model sharing arrangement as part of the Hawke Labor government reforms in 1989, Toyota began badge engineering versions of the VN Commodore.
The Hawke government then appointed him to the board of directors of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1985 a Constitutional Commission was established ( by the Hawke Labor government ) to review the Australian Constitution.
Snedden stood his ground despite furious demands from government members that Hawke either be made to retract or be named.
Mark Latham with former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, unveiling a plaque to commemorate the centenary of the first Australian federal Labor government, Melbourne, April 2004
When the Fraser government was defeated by Hawke in 1983, Snedden immediately resigned from Parliament.
Shortly after the leadership change, Hewson made up ground on the Hawke government in the opinion polls, as the Australian economy struggled with the early 1990s recession.
Due to numerous three-cornered contests and swing voters ' alarm at the prospect of Bjelke-Petersen being kingmaker in a hung parliament, the NPA lost several seats, particularly in Queensland, and the Hawke government was elected to a third term.
The culmination of these trends was a swing against the NPA at the 1990 election, at which the Hawke Labor government was re-elected.
It marked the end of the Hawke / Keating Labor government which had been in power for 13 years.
Under Hawke, Labor went on to defeat the Fraser government at the election held a month later.
It was widely expected that the incumbent Hawke Labor government would be easily re-elected, but an exceptionally long 10-week campaign and a strong campaign performance by Liberal leader, Andrew Peacock, saw the government s majority reduced ( although this was disguised by the increase in the size of the House from 125 to 148 ).

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Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.
Hawke was defeated as Labor leader in a 1991 spill against Paul Keating.
After three election victories, he was defeated by Bob Hawke in the 1983 election and ended his career alienated from his own party.
By the end of 1982 it was obvious that the popular former trade union leader Bob Hawke was going to replace Hayden as Labor leader.
He was also well aware of the infighting between Hayden and Hawke, and believed he'd caught Labor before Hawke took the leadership.
Unknown to Fraser, Hayden had resigned in favour of Hawke that morning — literally hours before the writ was dropped.
Although Keating was able to win the support of a reluctant cabinet, in the face of opposition from the public, the welfare lobby, the ACTU, and the business community, Hawke intervened to drop the consumption tax.
Publicly, Hawke and Keating had said there would be no recession-or there would be a " soft landing "-but this changed when Keating announced the country was indeed in recession-" this was the recession we had to have " he famously added.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen, retired at the 1990 election, and Keating was appointed Deputy to Hawke.
In June 1991, after Hawke had intimated to Keating that he planned to renege on the deal on the basis that Keating had been publicly disloyal and moreover was less popular than Hawke, Keating challenged him for the leadership.
According to Edwards, Hawke was unprepared to attack it and responded with windy rhetoric ’.
Chaos descended on English cricket in the Australian summer of 1887 / 8, as Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury organised their customary tour, at the invitation of the Melbourne Cricket Club, while a rival tour, that of the future Lord Hawke, was invited by their Sydney counterparts.
The loss of her Canadian possessions was only one of a series of disasters suffered by France, which included the victories at sea of Boscawen at Lagos and Hawke at Quiberon Bay.
The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.
The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Weir, and launched the acting careers of young actors Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard.
In 2004 the Act was used by John D. Hawke, Jr., Comptroller of the Currency's to effectively bar states attorney generals ' offices from national bank oversight and regulatory roles.
On 1 February 1984 Medicare was established by the Hawke Government.
This film was also remade in 2005 by Jean-Francois Richet, starring Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, and Ja Rule, moving the film's setting to Detroit.
The service was attended by a host of former and current Test cricketers, as well as Australia's then prime minister, John Howard, leader of the opposition Kim Beazley and former prime minister Bob Hawke.

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