Post Prime Ministerial speeches
2009
- 80 Hawke Years (Audio file, opens in new window) Bob Hawke speaks at the celebration of his 80th birthday, at the Hawke Centre, University of South Australia, 5 December 2009
2008
- Launch of the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding and the establishment of the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Diasporas and Reconciliation Studies (PDF 21kb, opens in new window) Speech delivered at the University of South Australia, 14 October 2008
- Challenges & Opportunities in Labour Law Today (PDF 100kb, opens in new window) A keynote speech delivered to the 16th Annual Labour Law Conference, “From Work Choices to Forward with Fairness: Continuity and Change in Australian Labour Law”, University of Sydney, 15 August 2008. Mr Hawke gives a brief historical analysis of industrial relations, and discusses the incompatibility of Work Choices legislation in the contemporary context.
2006
- Keeping the peace: avoiding the cost of conflict in humanitarian aid: delivered at the International alert series forum: The BIG Issues, Adelaide, Tuesday 3 October 2006
2005
- 19th Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture : from Deakin to Howard - a tarnished vision delivered at NSW Parliament, Sydney, Wednesday 26 October 2005
- The challenge of inequality of opportunity in Australia Keynote address delivered for the Poverty - it's closer than you think campaign conference with the South Australian Council of Social Service Thursday 28 July 2005
- "Get ready for the new Australasia" Keynote address to the 'Gateway to Australia' Trade Summit, Auckland, Thursday 3 March 2005
2004
- Australian Universities' International Alumni Conference, Hong Kong, December 2004
- Launch of Dr James Curran publication: "The Power of Speech - Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image" Sydney, May 2004
- On the occasion of the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the swearing in of the Government of J.C. Watson, Leader of the first National Labor Government in the World Melbourne, April 2004
- World Peace and Economic Advancement given to the international conference on a new vision and strategy under changing leadership in North East Asia Seoul Friday 27 February 2004
2002
- ACTU 75th Anniversary Speech in Melbourne on 25 November 2002
2001
- ALP Centenary Dinner in Melbourne on 8 May 2001
- Visions for a Nation - Federation Week: An Australian Mosaic on 20 October 2001
2000
- John Curtin Oration in Creswick on 20 August 2000
- Summary Speech, OECD International Futures Programme's Forum for the Future in Hanover 24-25 March 2000
1999
- Opening Address to The Australia Unlimited Conference Melbourne, 4 May 1999
- The Life and Work of Sir Richard Kirby
- What does it tell us for
the issues of today?
The 20th Kirby Lecture, University of Wollongong 20 April 1999 - Address to the Australia-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce (UK) London, 2 March 1999
1998
- Capital and Labour - where to now Australia? Address to Building Industry 2000, Melbourne 17 July 1998
- The Occasional Address given at a Graduation Ceremony and on the conferral of an Honorary Doctorate of the University of South Australia, 13 May 1998
- Prime Ministers on Prime Ministers Old Parliament House, Canberra, 5 March 1998
1997
- Speech on the occasion of the signing of the
Memorandum of
Understanding between the Hon R J L Hawke AC and the University of South
Australia to establish the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, 9
December 1997