What is Bob Hawke?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]] | name = Bob Hawke | image = Hawke Bob BANNER.jpg | caption = | order = 23rd [[Prime Minister of Australia]] | term_start = March 11, 1983 | term_end = December 20, 1991 | predecessor = [[Malcolm Fraser]] | successor = [[Paul Keating]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|12|9}} | birth_place = [[Bordertown, South Australia|Bordertown]], [[South Australia]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|05|16|1929|12|9}} | death_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia | party = [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] | spouse = {{marriage|[[Hazel Hawke|Hazel Masterson]]<br>|1956|1994|reason={{abbr|div.|divorced}}}}<br/>{{marriage|[[Blanche d'Alpuget]]|1995}} |constituency = [[Division of Wills|Wills]] (Victoria) }} '''Robert James Lee Hawke''' {{Small|[[Order of Australia|AC]] [[Order of Logohu|GCL]]}} (December 9, 1929 – May 16, 2019) was an [[Australia|Australian]] politician. From March 11, 1983 to December 20, 1991, he served as the 23rd [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] of [[Australia]] as leader of the [[Australian Labor Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/hawke/index.aspx|title=About - Robert Hawke (11 March 1983 – 20 December 1991) and Hazel Hawke|first=Parkes|last=corporateName=National Archives of Australia; address=Queen Victoria Terrace|website=primeministers.naa.gov.au|access-date=10 January 2011|archive-date=20 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520172531/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/hawke/index.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was the third longest serving Prime Minister of Australia. ==Political career== He was a [[Trade union|union]] leader before he entered parliament in 1980. He became leader only a little while before the 1983 election but he defeated [[Malcolm Fraser]]. His government made many changes, like the [[Gough Whitlam|Whitlam]] government, but did it more slowly and with more