Nation to celebrate Bob Hawke in Sydney memorial service

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Australians will come together on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to honour political giant and 'larrikin' former prime minister Bob Hawke. 9News

Mr Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for downing a yard glass while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and in his later years indulged fans at the cricket by knocking back drinks.

But in 1991 his treasurer Paul Keating replaced him as leader, his marriage hit the rocks, and eventually he and Hazel divorced. He married his biographer Blanche d'Alpuget in 1995.

 

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