Former governor-general Bill Hayden has died aged 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.Brought up in a working-class household in Brisbane, Hayden joined the police force in 1953 and worked a second job driving a milk delivery truck.
His time in politics was characterised by support for progressive reforms, including a single mothers’ pension and Medibank, the precursor to Medicare. He was baptised as Roman Catholic in 2018. He told Catholic media at the time that “there’s been a gnawing pain in my heart and soul about what is the meaning of life”.
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