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William George Hayden AC (23 January 1933 – 21 October 2023) was an Australian politician who served as the 21st governor-general of Australia from 1989 to 1996.
Oct 21, 2023 · Former governor-general and one-time Labor Party leader Bill Hayden has died at the age of 90. Once described as the greatest man never to become prime minister, Mr Hayden surrendered a shot at the top job for the sake of Labor Party unity.
Oct 21, 2023 · Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Bill Hayden was a Labor legend who had laid the foundations for the reforms pursued by the Hawke-Keating governments.
Nov 3, 2023 · Labor luminary Bill Hayden was remembered as a "remarkable" and "profoundly decent man" who transformed the ALP, and uplifted the lives of many Australians at his state funeral.
Oct 21, 2023 · Bill Hayden, a former governor-general and leader of the Labor Party, has died at the age of 90. Hayden served as treasurer in the Whitlam government and as foreign minister under Bob Hawke, to whom he had ceded leadership of the ALP in 1983, before being appointed for a seven-year term as governor-general in 1989. Bill Hayden. Quentin Jones.
Oct 21, 2023 · Former Labor leader and governor general Bill Hayden. (Wikimedia Commons) Hayden rose to Labor party leader, serving as leader of the opposition from 1977 to 1983 during the years when the Liberal Party's Malcolm Fraser was prime minister.
Oct 21, 2023 · Bill Hayden, a former ALP leader, foreign minister, treasurer, governor-general and the original architect of Medicare, has died after a long illness. He was 90. Rising from humble...
