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Hayden, Bill
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popular name of William George Hayden
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| Australian statesman, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. He studied at Queensland University, then served in the state civil service (1950–2) and the police (1952–61), before he joined the Australian Labor Party and entered the federal parliament in 1961. He served under Gough Whitlam and replaced him as Party leader in 1977. In 1983 he surrendered the leadership to the more charismatic Bob Hawke, and was foreign minister in his government (1983–8). As Governor-General of Australia (1989–96), he characteristically refused the customary knighthood which accompanies the post, and was rumoured to be Australia's first republican governor-general. In 1998, he was appointed to the Constitutional Convention which was to discuss whether Australia should become a republic. |
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