Topic summary
Hawke government
Member for Wills (1980–1992)
- Shadow Minister for Industrial
Relations, Employment and Youth - 1982 Labor Party spill
- 1983 Labor Party spill
- June 1991 Labor Party spill
- December 1991 Labor Party spill
Term of government (1983–1991)
- Prices and Incomes Accord
- Floating the Australian dollar
- Financial deregulation
- 1984 Australian referendum
- Medicare
- Australia Act
- 1988 Australian referendum
- Gulf War
- RCIADIC
Ministries
Elections
The Hawke government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1983 to 1991. The government followed the Liberal-National Coalition Fraser government and was succeeded by another Labor administration, the Keating government, led by Paul Keating after an internal party leadership challenge in 1991. Keating was Treasurer through much of Hawke's term as prime minister and the period is sometimes termed the Hawke-Keating government.