The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia of the Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996. The government was led initially by Bob Hawke as Prime Minister, who was succeeded by Paul Keating in 1991.
It followed the Coalition's Fraser Government, and ended when John Howard became Prime Minister on 11 March 1996 after the electoral defeat of the Australian Labor Party, ushering in the Howard Government.
Read more about Hawke-Keating Government: Hawke Prime-ministership (1983–1991), Keating Prime-ministership (1991-1996), See Also
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“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)