Bill Hayden obituary

Bill Hayden, a former governor-general and leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), is regarded as the creator of Medicare, a modernizing treasurer, and a reformer of post-World War II Labor. At the age of 90, the former governor general and labor leader passed away.

Mr. Hayden, hailed as the greatest leader who never was, handed Bob Hawke the Labor leadership in 1983. The famous Labor figure, who was born in Ipswich, introduced the single mother’s pension and served as Gough Whitlam’s treasurer and minister of social security.

Born in 1933, Mr. Hayden was raised in working-class Brisbane. He dropped out of school at age 16, went to work as a police officer, then returned to school to study economics.
He entered politics in 1961, beating the odds to secure Labor’s victory in the federal Queensland seat of Oxley.

Bill Hayden obituary

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Bill Hayden’s life will be honored with a state funeral.