Bob Hawke's '89 Australia Day visit to Tamworth remembered

Jamieson Murphy
Updated September 19 2019 - 2:16pm, first published May 17 2019 - 2:00pm
VALE: Bob Hawke (right) watches Slim Dusty perform at the country music festival. Photo: June Underwood
VALE: Bob Hawke (right) watches Slim Dusty perform at the country music festival. Photo: June Underwood

WHEN Bob Hawke came to Tamworth in 1989 for Australia Day, in the middle of the Country Music Festival, it had been 66 years since the city had seen a Prime Minister.

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Jamieson Murphy

Jamieson Murphy

News director

Newcastle Herald news director. Interested in any and all yarns. Whisper g'day mate to me at jamieson.murphy@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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