Robert (Bob) James Lee Hawke

fmr Australian Prime Minister

Hawke served as Australian PM from March 1983 to December 1991. In answer to a seven-year-old boy on a phone-in segment of This Day Tonight (Australian TV current affairs program; broadcast date not given), Hawke said "Until I get some evidence one way or the other which is compelling to me, I'm going to have to remain an agnostic..." quoted in Bob Hawke: A portrait, Robert Pullan, Methuen Australia, 1980, p137

--PL, KM