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     Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4152 Registered: 03-2005 |
Quote of a line from Brisbane band The Bell Divers' song "Sand" from their first album "June July." RIP Bob Hawke, an Aussie giant who managed to straddle political seams we can't even imagine in U.S. nowadays. A Labor Prime Minister who improved the lot of Australian workers while he allied internationally with Reagan and GHW Bush. And, explaining the thread title, he was a republican in the Aussie sense. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/obitu aries/bob-hawke-dead.html?rref=collectio n%2Fsectioncollection%2Faustralia&action =click&contentCollection=australia®io n=rank&module=package&version=highlights &contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront |