PM Hawke: The biography of one of the most influential and recognisable Australians from the award-winning historian and author of PAUL KEATING, CURTIN and CHIFLEYBob Hawke was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century, firstly as president of the ACtU from 1969 80 and federal president of the ALP from 1973 78, and then as prime minister from 1983 91. the government of this formerly hard drinking womaniser did much to transform the Australian economy, reorient Australian foreign policy towards Asia and introduce groundbreaking social welfare measures. After the difficult years of the late