Edited 21 Jun 2019 11:22, 2 years ago, edited by don_dunstan

I read the other day that Hawkie accumulated a large part of his $200 million fortune after leaving office by being paid to promote a nuclear waste dump and nuclear electricity for Australia. He was quite open in his support for that option but then didn't disclose that he was being paid as this speech in 2016 indicates - ABC:

Former prime minister Bob Hawke's assertion that nuclear power is the salvation for a planet ravaged by global warming divided the crowd at the Woodford Folk Festival, north of Brisbane today.

But it was his assertion that Australia should take on the world's nuclear waste that had the crowd most worked up, prompting several calls of "no thanks" from the audience.

Keating sits on the board of a Chinese bank and tells us to sack our intelligence heads because they're too anti-communist; Hawke takes money from the nuclear industry and goes out to spruik their wares without telling us that he's being paid. Delightfully honest people.