Bob Hawke: There is not one outstanding leader in the world

By Nick O'Malley
Updated July 9 2016 - 4:13pm, first published 3:57pm
Bob Hawke: "I don't want to blow my own trumpet, the facts speak for themselves." Photo: Nic Walker
Bob Hawke: "I don't want to blow my own trumpet, the facts speak for themselves." Photo: Nic Walker
The men who pushed the Madrid Protocol in 1989: former French PM Michel Rocard and Bob Hawke. Photo: Glenn Jacobson, AAD
The men who pushed the Madrid Protocol in 1989: former French PM Michel Rocard and Bob Hawke. Photo: Glenn Jacobson, AAD

The death of a former French prime minister might easily pass unremarked upon in Australia but on Thursday afternoon, just hours before Michel Rocard was buried in Paris, Bob Hawke sat in his office overlooking Sydney's sodden, windswept Botanical Gardens and Opera House and recalled a friendship forged decades ago that was to change the world.

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