Like him or not, R J Hawke as Prime Minister changed Australia...

Like him or not, R J Hawke as Prime Minister changed Australia in many ways. Some of them were;

1. He floated the Australian Dollar
2. He opened the Australian economy to global competition
3. He launched Medicare
4. He saved the Franklin River from being dammed
5. He outlawed gender discrimination
6. He deregulated the banking system

however the knockers will always want to bring up his "off the cuff" pledge of "by 1990 no child will be living in poverty"
speech and judge him on this one statement that is simply unjust.