Bob Hawke Country Quotations

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

This is a fight which you cannot lose, you must not lose -- we must win it if Australia is to remain the country we think it is.