Former Labor leader Bill Hayden’s 1983 ANZUS review preserved the alliance, but he despised craven and servile pandering to Washington
Bill Hayden would barely recognise the words dripping from the tongues of today’s Labor leaders when it comes to America.
Bill Hayden knew the problems Gough Whitlam had with the Americans, and was determined Labor did not follow in those footsteps.Hayden saw up-close the turmoil – heard the whispers – that rocked the US alliance under Gough Whitlam.
The review allowed Labor’s Left to voice its concerns, but it also let Hawke shore up his alliance credentials before going to Washington as prime minister for the first time in June 1983.
When Hayden delivered the review’s findings to parliament, he launched a full-frontal assault on the shibboleths that had put Labor on the defensive during the Cold War. He wanted Australians to see beyond these “lurid paradigms” of a “spectral China filling the world with terror”, to offload the “persiflage and humbug of the 1960s”.
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