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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.
- Kirrin Mckechnie
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.
- Anthony Sharwood
Nov 3, 2023 · Former governor-general and Labor leader Bill Hayden, who died aged 90, was honoured at a service in Ipswich. Politicians, family and friends celebrated his legacy of transforming the ALP and uplifting the lives of many Australians.
Oct 21, 2023 · Former federal Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden has died aged 90. Following news of the death, Anthony Albanese and Paul Keating have both praised Hayden. Labor frontbenchers Penny Wong and Jim Chalmers have also commented on Hayden's passing.
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 · Australia’s new prime minister, Paul Keating, is farewelled from Government House by the governor-general Bill Hayden (far left) and wife Dallas in December 1991. Rick Stevens. His greatest achievements, however, had come earlier.
