The former prime minister, current PM Anthony Albanese, family and friends led mourners farewelling Queensland Labor luminary Bill Hayden on Friday.
Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has praised fellow party stalwart and former governor-general Bill Hayden for not kowtowing to the United States in a eulogy at his state funeral in Queensland.
In that latter role throughout the 1980s Cold War era, Keating said Hayden “sought to bury the erroneous notion” that the country was totally dependent on the Australia, New Zealand and United States Security Treaty. “We can be grateful that this child of the Depression, turned-police officer, joined the Australian Labor Party to advance his values,” Albanese said.including Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and federal LNP MP Luke Howarth – representing Opposition Leader Peter Dutton – her siblings and mother, Dallas, had done so with “everyone, all our lives”.
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