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If anyone has an interest in Australian political history...
Join Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook, and Joshua Black as they discuss their new book, Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government.
Hosted by The Australia Institute as part of Australia's Biggest Bookclub.
📅Fri, Apr 24, 2026
🕚️11:00 am AEST
🔗 Zoom
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Join historians Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook, and Joshua Black as they discuss their new book, Gold Standard?: Remembering the Hawke government. Was the Hawke government ‘the gold standard’ for federal government in Australia? A stellar line-up of historians, social scientists, politicians and journalists shed valuable new light on the policies, politics and personalities of the Hawke government and ask: What lessons can it offer in the art of reformist government? How do its legacies…

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