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Australian Notes

Australian notes

27 November 2014

3:00 PM

27 November 2014

3:00 PM

The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many of the right themes—the mix of larrikinism and intelligence that John Howard thinks is the secret of Hawke’s popularity, the boozing and womanizing that so many thought (or hoped) would destroy him, and the will-power which drove him to change.

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