Views and Interests
Hazel Hawke has acted as a prominent pro-choice advocate in Australia, often drawing on her personal experience of having an illegal abortion in 1952 so that her future husband Bob Hawke could further his education at the University of Oxford.
Hazel Hawke has written books including My Own Life: An Autobiography (1992) and A Little Bit Of Magic: Thoughts For Women (1994).
Hazel Hawke was an excellent amateur pianist. In 1990, she was one of the three soloists in Mozart's Concerto in F for Three Pianos and Orchestra, K. 242, the others being Duncan Gifford and Rebecca Chambers. They played at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under John Hopkins. The performance was recorded and is available.
She was the inaugural Patron of the Kendall National Violin Competition, and is now Patron Emeritus.
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